Fabian Dirr has been principal clarinettist with the Dresden Philharmonic since 1995.
He has performed as a guest with the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Freiburg, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra 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 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 local philharmonic orchestra.
For his work as a soloist and chamber musician, Dirr received the Culture Promotion Award of the City of Erlangen in 1996. In 2002, he made a guest appearance as a soloist at the ‘International Organ Week Nuremberg’.
From 1996 to 2019, Fabian Dirr was co-founder and musical director of the Carus Ensemble Dresden. Chamber music collaboration is very close to the heart of this renowned clarinetist. He is always a sought-after partner for many festivals and concert series such as the Hohenloher Musiksommer, the Kammermusiktage Hitzacker, the Saxon-Bohemian Music Festival, the Festival Fermate in the Palatinate, the Rheingau Music Festival and many more.
In recent years, the topic of promoting young talent has become increasingly important to him. Fabian Dirr not 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.