Fabian Dudek is a German saxophonist and composer. He is currently working on composing idiosyncratic musical forms that deal with rhythm, harmony and structures within the music. These are mixtures of conventional and avant-garde notation and are regularly revised and updated. They focus on the exchange of intellect and emotion.
Dudek’s creative process is strongly influenced by everyday life. Experiences, persons, objects, states, the good, the bad. A majority of the events, visuals, sounds, experiences of everyday go unnoticed. Things that seem normal​ can, under a magnifying glass, unfold differently, perhaps with beauty, perhaps with uniqueness.

Prizes and other things

  • „Empire“: A comission for Acht Brücken Festival 2025. The piece deals with the film of the same name by Andy Warhol
  • „Stop Over 3“ Residency Berlin 2025
  • „Distant Skies, We Dream“ was nominated for the German record critics‘ award (Preis der deutschen Schalplattenkritik)
  • Nomination for Deutscher Jazzpreis (composition / arrangement)
  • „Protecting A Picture That’s Fading“ was nominated for Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics‘ Award)
  • Comissioned compositions „Day by Day“ and „An empty room, then smiling“ for Cologne Jazzweek 2023.
  • Horst & Gretl Will scholarship for Jazz and imrpovised music (prize of the city of Cologne) 2023
  • Scholar of NICA artist development from 2022 to 2025
  • In 2022 „Isolated Flowers“ was nominated for Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics‘ Award)
  • Bachelor’s and master’s degree in Cologne at „Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln“
  • Avignon Jazz Award „Tremplin Jazz Européen d’Avignon Grand Prix“ with the Simon Below Quartet in 2018
  • Scholar of „Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“ from 2018-2022
  • Soloist price at „Junger Deutscher Jazzpreis“ in Osnabrück in 2017
  • 2017: Scholarship of the „Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung“ with Simon Below Quartet.
  • Member of the German Youth Jazz Orchestra BuJazzO From 2016 to 2018
  • In 2016 Fabian Dudek and „The WhereMe?!“ received a scholarship for artists (Arbeitsstipendium der Stadt Frankfurt) from Frankfurt.
  • „Kulturförderstipendium der Stadt Rüsselsheim“ 2025, a scholarship for artists from Rüsselsheim.
  • Pre-college student at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from summer 2012 until winter 2013

In the past Fabian Dudek played at national and international festivals and locations such as Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt, Cologne Jazzweek, Südtirol Jazzfestival, Tampere Jazz Happening, Serious Series, Moers Festival, Avignon Jazz Festival, Jazzfest Bonn, Winterjazz Köln, Klaeng Festival,  c/o Pop Festival, Acht Brücken Festival, Klaipeda Jazz Festival, Kölner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Bimhuis, Porgy & Bess, Loft, Jazz-Fabrik Rüsselsheim …

Fabian Dudek played concerts in France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Ecuador and India.

Discography

 

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