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Douglas O'Connor (b. August 28th, 1983) is known most widely as an American saxophonist.

Winner of Astral Artistic Services' 2003 National Auditions, Doug O'Connor was also recently named 2nd Prize winner of the 2nd International Jean-Marie Londeix Saxophone Competition in Bangkok, the 1st Prize National Winner of the MTNA Young Artist Woodwind Competition in Toronto, and he has been heralded by American Symphony Orchestra League magazine as a 2007 Emerging Artist. His teachers include Chien-Kwan Lin, Dale Underwood and Timothy Roberts. In 2005 he received his Bachelor of Music Performance degree in saxophone from the University of Maryland, where he was also music director and conductor of its Philharmonia Ensemble chamber orchestra. Mr. O'Connor has performed across Europe and the U.S., including appearances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall. He was named the winner of the 2004 National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloists Competition, the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, and the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra's Mary Graham Lasley Competition. His ambitions include performing as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician around the world, sharing music with all audiences. Astral Artistic Services, a Philadelphia non-profit classical artist development agency, has presented O'Connor in over 60 recitals for community centers, schools, and senior homes, and also in ticketed events in many major USA concert venues: a world-premiere program featuring other Astral artists at Philadelphia�s new National Constitution Center, as soloist in the Glazounov Saxophone Concerto on its “Rising Stars” series at Philadelphia's Trinity Center, as well as in recital at the Trinity Center, the Kimmel Center, and Merkin Hall in New York City. Mr. O'Connor is currently finishing his M.M. degree at the Eastman School of Music, where he performs with the prestigious Eastman Wind Ensemble and coaches the undergraduate saxophone quartet program.