Fabian Blum was born in the year 2000 in Siegburg near Bonn and grew up in the Berlin area. He received lessons in violin, piano, viola, and organ, and from 2009 to 2014 he sang with the Staats- und Domchor Berlin. During this time, he participated in numerous performances, including collaborations with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Rundfunkchor Berlin. Between 2015 and 2019, he studied composition at the Reinickendorf School of Music.
Since the winter semester of 2019/20, Fabian Blum has been studying composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in the class of Moritz Eggert. He completed his Bachelor of Composition in 2023 and is currently continuing his studies there in the Master’s programme.
His talent as a composer has been recognized with several awards. He won second prize at Jugend Komponiert Brandenburg as well as at Jugend musiziert (composition category) in Berlin. He twice participated in the composition workshop Opus One of the Berlin Philharmonic, where his works Der Wind das Meer die Weite and Abschied were premiered at the Berlin Philharmonie. In 2020, one of his compositions was included in the repertoire of the Carl von Ossietzky Composition Competition. In 2021, he received an award for his work Mehr als 15 Klavierkonzerte in unter 600 Sekunden. In 2024, he was invited to participate in the Young Composer Meeting of Orkest de Ereprijs and received the Jost25 micro-grant from Ars Electronica for an AI project. In 2025, he became a finalist at the Xplore Competition with his project Lumina – Legende von Ingong. That same year, he also received the Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize awarded by the City of Munich.
In addition to his competition successes, Blum has been involved in numerous composition projects and artistic collaborations. He composed music for the staged concert Shuffle (together with fellow students, 2019), the film Ben Quijote – und täglich grüßt (2021), and the theatre production …Oder kann das weg? (2024) at the Theaterakademie August Everding. His composition noitisnarT was written for the panel programme Theater und Prozess and premiered in Courtroom 600 as part of a collaboration with the State Theatre of Nuremberg. He also composed the music for a new production of Die Biene im Kopf at the Residenztheater Munich. With Jane – a space opera (2023), he created his first opera, presented as his Bachelor graduation project at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. He also engaged in work involving artificial intelligence, collaborating with other composition students and the Munich Philharmonic on an AI-based project.
Blum’s works have been presented at several festivals, including the Intersonanzen Festival in Potsdam, the aDevantgarde Festival in Munich, and the Transparent Sound New Music Festival in Budapest (2021). In addition, he composed the intro music for Axel Brüggemann’s podcast Alles klar, Klassik?.