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).

He 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), Zuniga (Carmen) and Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), in Germany as Eremit (Der Freischütz) at the Theater Hof and the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, at the Staatsoper Stuttgart as Masetto (Don Giovanni),at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence as Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), at the Vlaamse Opera as Masetto (Don Giovanni), Collatinus (Rape of Lucretia) and Vieillard Hébreu (Samson et Dalila), at the Wiener Festwochen (Die Zauberflöte, Jakob Lenz, Wozzeck), at the Theater an der Wien (Die Zauberflöte), at the Theater La Monnaie in Brussels as Medico (Forza del destino), at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam as Struthion (Des Esels Schatten) at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam (la fanciulla del West).

He worked with conductors as Jiri Kout, Kazushi Ono, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Harding, Carlo Rizzi, Elgar Howarth,  Antonino Fogliani, Antonello Allemandi, Andreas Spering und  Carlo Franci.

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. This season he is reinvited at the Wiener Festwochen as Ceprano (Rigoletto), in St. Gallen he will be heard as Doktor (Wozzeck), Frank (Fledermaus) and Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), and in 2011 as Pfleger des Orest (Elektra) und Orakel (Idomeneo) at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam.