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Fabian Dudek

Fabian Dudek is a Cologne saxophonist, composer, improviser, and bandleader whose small groups balance written structures with collective exploration.

Alto saxophoneComposerImproviserBandleader5 current shows

Photo source · Photo: Annamarie Ursula, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons

Career Overview

About Fabian Dudek

NICA's artist-development profile identifies Dudek as a Cologne-based saxophonist and composer whose work is organized through his quartet and the larger La Campagne ensemble. Furusato Records adds an emphasis on composition, improvisation, and fluid ensemble interaction.[1][2]

His artist-authorized catalog begins with Creating Meaning and continues through Isolated Flowers, collaborations with La Campagne, and the 2026 quartet release Recent. Across those sessions Dudek is credited with saxophone, compositions, and ensemble direction.[4][5][6]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, saxophonist, and composer

Fabian Dudek Quartet

The quartet is the continuing setting for Dudek's composed series, with changing rhythm-section detail documented across Creating Meaning, Isolated Flowers, and Recent.[1][4][5][6]

Co-leader, saxophonist, and composer

La Campagne

NICA and Dudek's catalog identify the larger collaborative ensemble as a second vehicle for his work beyond the quartet.[1][3]

Leader and composer

Recent ensemble

The Furusato release pairs Dudek with Felix Hauptmann, Ruth Goller, and Leif Berger in a live-in-studio quartet built around open forms.[2][6]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2019

Creating Meaning

Leader, saxophonist, and composer

Dudek's artist-authorized debut presents an extended composition series for his newly formed quartet.[4]

Release details

2022 · Traumton Records

Isolated Flowers

Leader, alto saxophonist, and composer

The release credits Dudek with alto saxophone and compositions alongside Felix Hauptmann, David Helm, and Fabian Arends.[5]

Release details

2026 · Furusato Records

Recent

Leader, saxophonist, and composer

Recorded live at JAKI in Cologne, the album documents Dudek with Felix Hauptmann, Ruth Goller, and Leif Berger.[2][6]

Release details

Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp catalog

Hear six artist-authorized releases spanning Dudek's quartet, collaborative ensemble work, and recent live session.

Furusato Records releases

Open the label's artist and release guides for Recent, personnel, and current ensemble context.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Mon, Sep 7, 10:30 PM

Cologne Jazzweek: Parzhuber Trio feat. Olga Reznichenko – PARZ

Stadtgarten · Cologne

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Wed, Sep 9, 8:00 PM

Cologne Jazzweek: Composers Collective Cologne – Amsterdam Edition

Stadtgarten · Cologne

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Wed, Sep 9, 8:30 PM

Cologne Jazzweek: Composers Collective Cologne – Amsterdam Edition

Stadtgarten · Cologne

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Thu, Sep 10, 7:00 PM

Cologne Jazzweek | Chaerin Im, Fabian Dudek & Special Guest: Petter Eldh

LOFT Cologne · Cologne

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Thu, Sep 10, 7:00 PM

Cologne Jazzweek | Chaerin Im, Fabian Dudek & special guest: Chiquita Magic

LOFT Cologne · Cologne

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Artist-development biography

    NICA artist development

  2. [2] Current label artist biography

    Furusato Records

  3. [3] Official Bandcamp catalog

    Fabian Dudek

  4. [4] Creating Meaning release and audio

    Fabian Dudek

  5. [5] Isolated Flowers release and audio

    Fabian Dudek / Traumton Records

  6. [6] Recent release and personnel

    Fabian Dudek / Furusato Records