The belgian bass TIJL FAVEYTS studied at the Conservatory in Brussels and at the University of Music in Vienna with Prof. Ralf Döring and Prof. Kmsg. Robert Holl. In June 2004 he obtained the Magister-degree with distinction.

After earning first prizes and interpretation prizes at international singing competitions, he started his carreer in 2004 in Toronto with the role of Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte).  From 2005 on he became a member of the Theater Sankt Gallen where he sung amongs others, the roles of Sacristano (Tosca), Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Oroveso (Norma), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor) and Gremin (Eugin Onegin).

The young bass made guest appearances in Austria with the roles of Alfonso (Cosi fan tutte), Luther and Crespel (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Sparafucile (Rigoletto) and Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), in Germany as Eremit (Der Freischütz) at the Theater Hof and the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg as Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) and at the Vlaamse Opera as Masetto (Don Giovanni). He worked with conductors as Fabio Luisi, Christopher Moulds, Andreas Spering, Jiri Kout, Antonello Allemandi et  Carlo Franci.

In 2006 he made his debut as 2. Geharnischter (Die Zauberflöte) at the Wiener Festwochen and at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence as Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) with Daniel Harding. In 2008 he was invited again at the Wiener Festwochen (Jakob Lenz) and he made his debüt at the Concertgebouw as Struthion (Des Esels Schatten) and at La Monnaie in Brussels as Medico (Forza del destino) under Kazushi Ono.

Tijl Faveyts is also a regulary guest on concertstages where he performed Die Matthäuspassion, die Johannespassion, The Messiah from Händel and Die Jahreszeiten from Haydn (Musikverein Vienna) as well as die Winterreise from Schubert. Next season he will make his debut at the Staatsoper Stuttgart as Masetto (Don Giovanni), he is reinvited to do Collatinus (Rape of Lucretia) and Vieillard Hébreu (Samson et Dalila) at the Flemisch Opera and in St. Gallen he will be heard in La Traviata and in Pique Dame.