Yevgeny Ring

Evgeny Ring (2017)

Jewgeni Ring ( Russian Евгений Ринг , * 1987 in Rostow ) is a Russian jazz musician ( alto and soprano saxophone , clarinet , composition) who lives in Germany and is active under the name Evgeny Ring .

Live and act

Ring received saxophone lessons from the age of seven at the Kim Nazaretow Children's Jazz School, where he played a. a. in the Children's Bigband under the direction of Andrey Machnew. From 2007 he studied saxophone at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig with Uwe Plath and Johannes Enders ; During this time he also had lessons from Richie Beirach and took part in master classes (with Billy Hart , Dave Liebman , Mark Turner, among others ). During a stay in New York, he also took lessons from Dave Liebman and met musicians like Randy Brecker and Phil Markowitz . After completing his saxophone studies in Leipzig with honors, he completed a composition course at the Cologne University of Music (graduation 2017). He leads his own quartet, for which he writes his own compositions and with which he released Ya Tashu's first album in 2011 . He played u. a. also with Natalya Karmazin's Karma Jazz Group , the Spielvereinigung Sued (album Zollers Expeditions Orkest Mons 2013), the ensemble The Big Jazz Thing (album A Next Generation Celebration , Double Moon Records , 2013), the Eva Klesse Quartet ( Xenon 2014, Obenland 2016 , Miniatures 2018, all on enja ) and the Magnetic Ghost Orchestra (with Malte Schiller , Moritz Sembritzki , Raphael Klemm, among others ). With Uli Weber on electric guitar, Jort Terwijn on bass and Hans Arnold on drums, he appeared in the formation of Bazga .

Prizes and awards

Among other things, Ring won the Russian Jazz Award 2007. With his own quartet he won 2nd prize at the Burghausen International Jazz Prize in 2009 and the 3rd prize at the Hoeillaart International Jazz Prize the following year. In 2015 he received the Jazz Young Talent Award of the City of Leipzig. In the same year the Eva Klesse Quartet, to which he belonged, was awarded the Echo Jazz award for best newcomer band.

Discographic notes

• Evgeny Ring Quartet Ya Tashus ( Double Moon Records 2011, with Sascha Stiehler , Philipp Rohmer, Dominique Ehlert)
• Karma Jazz Group Birth of Indigo ( Laika 2011, with Natalya Karmazin, Daniel Guggenheim , Christoph Rücker, Martin Standke )
• Evgeny Ring Quartet feat. Bastian Ruppert Mesokosmos ( Unit Records 2015)

Web links

• Web presence
• Evgeny ring at Discogs (English)