| Evgeni Orkin uk|Євген Станкович | |
| Birth Date: | 1977 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Lviv, Ukrainian SSR |
Evgeni Orkin (uk|Євген Станкович, born 2 October 1977) is a Ukrainian composer, clarinetist, saxophonist, conductor and author, who is based in Germany.
Born in Lwiw, then in the Ukrainian SSR, Orkin studied first at the Kyiv Coservatoire, clarinet with I. Pendischuk and composition with Yevhen Stankovych. He studied further in Utrecht and at the Musikhochschule Mannheim, clarinet with Herman Braune and, conducting with Melvin Margolis and composition with Ulrich Leyendecker and .
Orkin played as principal clarinet in the ensemble of the Kyiv Camerata from 1992 to 1999. He was a co-founder of the project Open-Lift for contemporary music in Utrecht. He is co-founder, clarinetist and saxophonist of the ensemble Komponistenverschwörung, a member of the ensemble TEMA in Karlsruhe, and a co-founder and player of the Dorado Quintet.
He has played in world premieres, in works by composers such as, Nuno Corte-Real,,, Valentin Silvestrov, Stankovych and Martin Wistinghausen.
Orkin composed ten chamber symphonies, six symphonies, concertos for violin, piano, saxophone and clarinet, an opera, Magister Ludi after Hermann Hesse, several works of musical theatre, and chamber music. His works were performed at international festivals, including Kontraste in Lviv, the Kyiv Music Fest, a festival of new music in Odesa, Heidelberger Frühling,, ZeitGenuss in Karlsruhe, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Wachenheimer Serenaden, and LvivMozArt. His works have been published by Accolade, Konsid und Are Musikverlag.
His chamber opera Das Märchen der Waldkönigin Ach sets a Ukrainian fairy tale; it was premiered at the small Wartburg stage of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden in October 2023. His Odessa Rhapsody was awarded the European Music Prize from the mayor of Berlin in 2023. It was premiered in Paris, and he received the prize when the German premiere was played at the Konzerthaus Berlin as part of Young Euro Classic by the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine conducted by Oksana Lyniv to whom he had dedicated the work.
In 2010 he founded the label OML. He published an educational book about playing historic clarinets in 2017, Methodische Einführung in das Erlernen und die Anwendung der historischen Klarinette.
Orkin has lectured at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, and taught music at the J. S. Bach-Gymnasium in Mannheim and at the music schools of Grünstadt and Frankenthal.