Stefan Fuchs performs as a representative of historically informed cello playing on "modern" violoncello and baroque violoncello. He participated in the new recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos conducted by Reinhard Goebel and the Berlin Baroque Soloists (members of the Berlin Philharmonic), which was awarded an OPUS-Klassik in 2018.

He has performed under the baton of Harnoncourt, Currentsis, Christie, Minkowski, Hogwood, Herreweghe, and Hengelbrock, among others. CD and DVD recordings have been made for DECCA (CD MARIA with Caecilia Bartoli), Sony, BMG, and Harmonia mundi, among others, with Ensemble Trazom, which he co-founded.

Stefan Fuchs first taught at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, since 2005 he has been teaching baroque violoncello, chamber music and performance practice at the HfM Würzburg.

Stefan Fuchs received his first violoncello lessons from Feuermann student Annlies Schmidt-de Neveu in Karlsruhe, later he studied in Munich and Zurich, most recently in Basel at the Schola Cantorum Basilienses with Christophe Coin (baroque violoncello) and Jesper Boje Christensen (chamber music, performance practice). Master classes with Maurice Gendron, Paul Tortelier and Anner Bijlsma as well as studies in musicology and philosophy at the universities of Hamburg and Freiburg complemented his education.

As an editor, he edited the reconstruction of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach's Sonata for Violoncello and Obligato Harpsichord (Schott-Verlag) as well as the orchestral works "Les Elements" and "Les Characteres de la danse" by the French Baroque composer Jean Fery Rebel, the latter for the first time complete with the middle parts he rediscovered.

Stefan Fuchs is a regular juror of the German Music Competition and the national competition "Jugend musiziert".