was born in Kempten/Allgäu.
While still studying pharmacy, he was accepted into the vocal class of Professor Monika Bürgener at the Würzburg University of Music and Performing Arts, where he completed the advanced training class with distinction in March 2002. Since then, he has worked freelance.
Sven Fürst now has an extensive concert schedule both in Germany and throughout Europe, working with orchestras such as the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic, and the Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra. He has attended master classes with Prof. Ingeborg Hallstein, Prof. Richard Sigmund, and Prof. Helmut Deutsch, among others, and has participated in various CD productions and radio recordings. Sven Fürst is the first prize winner of the 1999 Armin Knab Competition, a finalist of the 2000 Joseph Suder Competition, a prize winner of the 2005 “Debut in Merano” competition, and a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Society in 2000. In 1999, he also took up a teaching position in singing at the University of Würzburg. In the 2001/02 season, he was a guest at the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg and is a member of the Cologne Young Chamber Opera, where he sang Papageno in The Magic Flute alongside the father in “Hansel and Gretel” and Dr. Falke in “Die Fledermaus.”
In the 2005/06 season, he appeared in Cologne as Guglielmo in a production of “Cosi fan tutte.”
In addition to the Merano Opera Summer of 2005, where he sang one of the leading roles in a revival of Flotow’s opera “The Miller of Merano,” he finally performed Dr. Bartolo in W.A. Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” in a highly acclaimed production at the Pasinger Fabrik in Munich in the summer of 2006. A recording by Bayerischer Rundfunk took place in January 2007.