The only child of a writer and a translater, Dmitry Baevsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He started piano lessons at the age of six and discovered his passion for music as a teenager when he picked up an alto saxophone. Although he was not surrounded by professional musicians, his family was closely connected to music. His great grand-father, Moisei Beregovsky, was one of the most famous and respected Jewish ethnomusicologists who spent his life gathering melodies and words of Yiddish folk songs, as well as Eastern European Jewish dance melodies (klezmer music).

In 1991, he entered the Mussorgsky College of Music in St-Petersburg where he studied with the brilliant Russian jazz saxophonist Gennady Goldstein for four years. Throughout the nineties, he appeared in many jazz venues and international festivals throughout Russia.

Upon his arrival to New York at age 19, he was accepted into the Jazz Department at the New School University on a full scholarship. After finishing college, Baevsky remained busy working within the New York jazz community and has performed and/or recorded with musicians such as Benny Green, Peter Washington, Willie Jones III, David Hazeltine, “Killer” Ray Appleton, Peter Bernstein, Cedar Walton, Joe Cohn, Jesse Davis, Dennis Irwin, Jeremy Pelt, Steve Williams, Joe Magnarelli, Gregory Hutchinson, Roger Kellaway, Leon Parker, Dena De Rose and Ryan Kisor among others.

In 2016, Dmitry moved to Paris while maintaining a strong professional connection to New York. He is a Selmer and Vandoren endorsing artist.

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