Evgeni Orkin (Євген Оркін, born 2 October 1977) is a Ukrainian composer, clarinetist, saxophonist, conductor and author, who is based in Germany.
Born in Lwiw,[1] then in the Ukrainian SSR, Orkin studied first at the Kyiv Conservatoire, clarinet with I. Pendischuk and composition with Yevhen Stankovych.
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 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.
He published an educational book about playing historic clarinets in 2017, Methodische Einführung in das Erlernen und die Anwendung der historischen Klarinette.