Asen Doykin is a New York based, award winning jazz pianist, film composer, music producer and piano teacher. He has been part of the New York music and academic scene for the past twenty four years. Asen has played at some of the city's best known performance venues and jazz clubs such as: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Steinway Hall, The Blue Note, Birdland, The Kitano, Smalls Jazz Club, Mezzrow Jazz Club, Joe's Pub.

Asen has released three albums as a leader and has composed, arranged and produced numerous full length albums and music for film, television, radio and theater. His music has been featured at the Cannes Film Festival, Ferrara International Film Festival, Harlem International Film Festival, Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival, Athens International Digital Film Festival, HBO, BBC Radio, WBGO NYC Radio, NPR Radio, Queens Public Television, Jazz Radio Berlin and the Bulgarian National TV and Radio Channels.

Asen has established himself as a prominent teacher leading the piano facility at the New York Jazz Academy, Montclair Kimberley Academy and his own music studio. He has taught piano master classes as a visiting teacher at Berklee College of Music in Boston, The Royal Stockholm Conservatory in Sweden, Hanover University of Music in Germany, Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey and Plovdiv Music Institute in Bulgaria. His pupils have graduated from his piano program and have been accepted to some of the most prestigious academic institutions such as Harvard University, Columbia University, Berklee College of Music and The Julliard School.

Asen has recorded and performed with some of the most eminent contemporary musicians on the New York jazz, pop and world scene. He has worked with Pino Paladino, Joe Locke, Keith Carlock, Bennie Maupin, Tim Lefebvre, Ada Rovatti, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Francisco Mela, Eli Degibri, Myron Walden, Rodney Green, Kendrick Scott, Vincent Ector, Theodosii Spassov, among many others.

Born in Pazardjik, Bulgaria in 1975, to the family of a classical musician, Asen Doykin started playing piano at the age of five. While studying classical music at the Music School “Dobrin Petkov” in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Asen attempts composition and improvisation and forms his own trio with which He starts to perform at music festivals in Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Germany. Doykin also started to work with many Bulgarian musicians with whom he recorded original compositions and arrangements for different projects and for the Bulgarian National Radio and TV. On the 13th edition of the Plovdiv Youth Jazz Festival, Asen was awarded Best Young Jazz Performer. In 1993 Asen also received First Prize for classical composition at the prestigious international competition “Svetoslav Obretenov”.

After graduating from the Music School of Plovdiv in 1995, Asen received a scholarship to attend the world famous Berklee College of Music in Boston. While at Berklee, he won the coveted Jazz Performance of the Year award, and the Jesse Stone Scholarship. He continued to further develop his personal musical style and to diversify his repertoire with Jazz, 20th Century Classical Music and Bulgarian Folk.

In 1999 after graduating from Berklee College, Asen moved to New York City. Here He started active performance, recording, music production and teaching career. Since residing in New York, He has toured extensively the United States and Europe with his own band and as a sideman with different music formations.

In 2022 Asen released an album of solo piano original compositions entitled Wired Paths. The music is available on all major streaming platforms. In the spring of 2023 Asen finished composing and producing the film score to the film ‘My Last Best Friend”, featuring in the main role Oscar nominated actor Eric Roberts. The movie premiered on July 28th, 2023 at the historic Union County Performing Art Center. At the 2024 edition of the Ferrara International Film Festival Asen won the Golden Dragon Award, Best Original Score for the film My Last Best Friend.