Fabian Dirr

Fabian Dirr has been principal clarinettist with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra since 1995.

He has performed as a guest with the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Freiburg, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a soloist, Fabian Dirr has performed works by Weber, Mozart, Copland, Nielsen, Debussy, Richard Strauss and Rossini in Germany, Spain and Finland. He has worked with artists such as Raffael Frühbeck de Burgos, Christopher Hogwood, Domingo Hindoyan, Kahchun Wong and Santtu Matias Rouvalli, who invited him to Tampere in 2016 to perform Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra.
In January 2026, Fabian Dirr will perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1996, Dirr was awarded the City of Erlangen's Cultural Promotion Prize for his solo and chamber music work. In 2002, he was a guest soloist at the ‘International Organ Week Nuremberg’.

From 1996 to 2019, Fabian Dirr was co-founder and musical director of the Carus Ensemble Dresden, with which he played concerts throughout Europe and Asia. Chamber music collaboration is very close to the renowned clarinettist's heart anyway. He is always in demand as a partner for many festivals and concert series such as the Hohenloher Musiksommer, the Kammermusiktage Hitzacker, the Saxon-Bohemian Music Festival, the Fermate Festival in the Palatinate, the Rheingau Music Festival and many more.

In recent years, the promotion of young talent has become increasingly important to him. Fabian Dirr no longer only teaches as a professor of clarinet at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden, but also regularly gives masterclasses in Germany, Europe, South Korea and China, such as Clarimondo in Staufen i. Br. and the MAAKS - musicacademy in Spetses, Greece.