Praised by BBC Music Magazine as “highly engaging,” Belarusian-born American clarinetist, saxophonist, and conductor Yevgeny Dokshansky has performed throughout Europe, North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. He is a first-prize winner at the Minsk Jazz Competition, a third-prize winner at the Second International Music of Hope Competition, a special-prize winner at the Fifth Aginski International Competition of Chamber Music, and a two-time winner of the Baird Concerto Competition on both clarinet and saxophone. A devoted chamber musician, he founded the Chicago Q Ensemble, the Martin & Dokshansky Duo, and the Alito Quintet, and performed as tenor saxophonist with the Amherst Saxophone Quartet from 2004 to 2006.

Dokshansky serves as Professor of Practice and Area Head at the University of Houston Moores School of Music, and as Artistic Director and Conductor of Ensemble Next Parallel in Washington, D.C. He previously held positions as Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts, Principal Clarinetist of the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Baltimore, and Associate Conductor of the Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Southern Maryland Youth Orchestra and Choir, and the Chamber Orchestra of Southern Maryland.

From 2013 to 2018 he was Professor of Music at the University of Trinidad and Tobago Academy for the Performing Arts, where he led the woodwind studio and conducting programs and co-directed the faculty ensemble Ibis. During his years in Trinidad he also served as guest conductor with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Trinidad and Tobago and founded an after-school instrumental music program and an annual summer band camp. He has recently presented recitals and masterclasses at institutions including the Lynn Conservatory of Music, Texas Tech University, the University of Delaware, and the University of the West Indies.

Dokshansky has appeared on stages such as Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium and Chicago’s Symphony Center Orchestra Hall, performing under conductors including Roberto Abbado, David Robertson, Robert Spano, Michael Stern, and Leonard Slatkin. He holds degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and the DePaul University School of Music, and pursued additional study in orchestral conducting with Jorma Panula at the Panula Academy in Finland.

His recordings with Ensemble Next Parallel—Around the World: Trios for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (2021) and From Jewish Life: The Music of Ernest Bloch (2021), both on London’s Heritage Records—have drawn critical praise, with BBC Music Magazine calling the former “a highly engaging and colorful journey through the clarinet trio repertoire.” He is an endorsing artist for Légère Reeds and BG France.