Fabian Dudek is a german saxophonist and composer.


Johannes Hamm was born on January in 1994 and grew up in Greifswald, a small town in Northeast Germany. Watching his father play drums in an amateur rock band, he decided to learn the drums himself. However, his first formal lessons were on the acoustic guitar at the age of seven. He started playing drums formally one year later and joined his first punk band when he was eleven. Besides playing in local punk groups, he was also playing in local music school orchestras in Greifswald. He early on developed an eclectic style of playing, drawing from many different influences. He also participated in a classical performance competition for guitar, called Jugend musiziert, when he was fifteen, winning second price on a federal level, but stopped practicing guitar afterwards, to focus on drumming. He had heard his first jazz recording when he was fourteen and something in that music gravitated towards him. While participating in a student exchange program, he went to a high school in Imperial, Missouri for a year. There he played in the school’s marching band, concert band and jazz band. It was after that exchange year, that he started learning about jazz drumming more extensively. In 2013 he got accepted into the jazz performance program at the university of music in Mannheim, in Southwest Germany. Being curious in nature, he did as much studying abroad as possible. He went to Basel, Switzerland for a year to study with legendary jazz drummers Jeff Ballard and Jorge Rossy. In 2018 he went to Salvador da Bahia in Brazil for a semester. He played extensively throughout the South west of Germany and in 2018 appeared as a supporting act for Jamie Cullum at the festival Jazz Open Stuttgart. After graduating in Mannheim, he applied for the DAAD graduate scholarship and started to study jazz performance in New York City at the New York University. In 2018 he recorded his first Album as a leader, entitled "Convective Ideas".

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