Evgeny Ring was born in Rostov on Don in Russia in 1987. After starting to study the saxophone in the Kim Nazaretov Jazz school at age 7, he joined the Children’s Big band (led by A. Machnev), for which he later also was the featured soloist. He studied briefly at the Rostov College of Arts and moved to Leipzig/Germany in October 2007, where he is now a student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater. His teachers include among others Andrey Machnev, Vladimir Popov, Uwe Plath, Richie Beirach. He toured extensively in Russia, and Ukraine with the Kim Nazaretov Big band and in Germany, and Czech Republic with Dortmund/Germany-based International Bigband. Featured soloists he has worked with include, Dennis Rowland (Count Basie Big Band singer) and Melba Joyce (Count Basie Big Band), Peter Beets (NL/piano), Milan Svoboda (Prague). Evgeny has won various first prizes both as a soloist („2001 Jazz Parnas“, St.Petersburg/Rus.; „2002 Jazz Festival “Rostov/Rus.; 2007: „Grand Prix Russian Jazz Award“- over all instruments) and with small bands and saxophone quartets and has been featured on recordings both of the Kim Nazaretow Bigband and the International Big band Dortmund.
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