Sven Fürst studied in the vocal class of Prof. Monika Bürgener at the University of Music/Würzburg and graduated there with distinction in 2002.

He attended master classes with KS Prof. Ingeborg Hallstein and Prof. Helmut Deutsch, among others, and has already participated in various CD productions and radio recordings.

Sven Fürst is first prize winner of the Armin Knab Competition 1999, prize winner of the competition "Debut in Meran" 2005, scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Society 2000 and has been a regular member of the competition jury of "Jugend musiziert" for some time.

In the meantime, Sven Fürst maintains an extensive concert schedule in Germany and other European countries with a repertoire that includes oratorio works from the early baroque to the modern era, and works with orchestras such as the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and the Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra.

For years he has been firmly connected to the cultural life of Würzburg and Franconia and has sung with the Würzburg Oratorio Choir and the Würzburg Monteverdi Choir, among others.

Sven Fürst was a guest at the theaters in Würzburg, Koblenz, Eisenach and Meiningen.

As a member of the Young Opera Cologne he sang, among others, the Father in "Hansel and Gretel", Papageno in "The Magic Flute" and Guglielmo in Mozart's "Cosi".

At the Merano Opera Summer 2005 he gave one of the main roles in a revival of Flotow's "Der Müller von Meran".

Since the summer of 2006, Sven Fürst began to appear in all the productions of the Pasinger Fabrik in Munich that received much press attention - as Dr. Bartolo in Mozart's "Figaro", as Rossini's "Turk in Italy", as DonAlfonso in "Cosi", as Dulcamara in Donizetti's "Liebestrank" and finally in 2010 in Verdi's "La Traviata".

In March 2010 he also made his Swiss debut at the Theater St. Gallen in the production of Benjamin Schweizer's opera "Jakob von Gunten".

This year, Sven Fürst's roles will include Leporello in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in Munich and Dulcamara at the Burry Port Opera Festival in Wales.