The opera singer, speaker and graduate physicist trained in Stuttgart has been on stage since the age of 19. As a multi-instrumentalist, he first studied school music, physics, and sound engineering in Rostock and Piteå (Sweden). He has since devoted himself fully to the human voice and new music at the HMDK Stuttgart (Master New Music/Master Opera Singing). His teachers include Teru Yoshihara, Annegret Müller, Angelika Luz and Georg Nigl. Master classes with Juri Vassiliev, Conny Krawutschke, Sebastian Fuchs, Michael Volle, Margreet Honig, Sarah-Maria Sun and many others deepened the scope of his vocal knowledge. He has been supported by the Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes, the Haake Foundation, the SWR Vokalensemble Academy and the Vadstena Academy in Sweden.

Zurek works as a voice coach and speech teacher both as a freelancer and as a lecturer at the ADK Ludwigsburg and at the HfM Würzburg.

Pedagogically, he is fascinated by the possibility of accompanying people on their way to a healthy, artistically strong voice use appropriate to their personality - in "usual" speaking and singing, but also in screaming and shouting, in vocal experiments of many kinds and contemporary artistic forms of expression.

In addition to these primary learning goals, Zurek prefers to work on exact and effortless articulation, increasing the presence and commitment of the voice in space, good, and natural text composition both in free speech and in the presentation of written texts.

His methodology is based on solid knowledge of human physiology - no wonder as a graduate physicist - and does not require an ideological superstructure. The intensive body work and self-awareness, into which he incorporates physical knowledge from dance, yoga, Alexander technique and sport climbing, leads to a path to body connection, lasting presence and adequate resonance.

Zurek can be heard regularly in concerts with vocal improvisation or electronic music, in song and recitation evenings and oratorios. He currently has a special focus on melodrama and music by Scandinavian composers.

In 2016, he made his debut at the Stuttgart State Opera in Johannes Harneit's Alice im Wunderland (premiere). In recent years, he has appeared in productions of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (Betto di Signa), Mozart's Magic Flute (Sarastro), Hoffmann's Undine (Kühleborn), Verdi's Rigoletto (Sparafucile), Kurt Weill's Street Scene (Mr. Olson), Ligeti's Aventures, and most recently Verdi's Don Carlos (Le Grand Inquisiteur), among others, on stages in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, and Hungary. In 2021, she received the scholarship of the prestigious Swedish Vadstena-Akademi and sang in the world premiere of Zebran by Tebogo Mannokgotla at Vadstena Castle.

Vocally demanding stage works such as Ligeti's Aventures and the mono-opera Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies are among his favorite roles.