Biography

Sven-David Harry was born in 1988 in Luzern and currently lives in Zürich (Switzerland).

After graduating successfully with a Bachelor degree majoring in Choral Conducting and Church Organ, he continued with a Master’s degree in Music Education with a major in Orchestral Conducting at Lucerne University of Music and an additional semester in Choral and Orchestral Conducting at ‘Jāzepa Vītola Latvijas Mūzikas akadēmija’ in Riga (Latvia).

By attending many masterclasses, courses and internships with internationally recognized specialists Sven-David Harry received a deep, enriching insight into the professional world of choral and orchestral conducting. While working with his own companies, soloists and concert masters and as an active student of various conducting master classes (symphonic/opera) with globally established professors he developed his personal style of conducting and gained valuable work experience. He demands and encourages musicians in a motivating and positive manner and leads them to huge musical achievements.

Sven-David Harry has experience in conducting big oratorio choirs, in church music practice as a cantor, in early music, in Gregorian chant, in professional musical theatre, in modern music leading a cappella Pop groups, in amateur and school choirs as well as working in collaboration with various foreign choirs and conductors. Furthermore, I work regularly with professional orchestras as well as amateur symphony orchestras.

Sven-David Harry has particularly focused on the subject of singing voice. In addition to his extensive classical training and various further training courses in vocal methodology (Estill Voice, Complete Vocal Technique, choral phonetics and other seminars on the subject of choral voice training), he completed a “Certificate of Advanced Studies” study program on “Pop Singing” (modern singing) and a “Certificate of Advanced Studies” study program on “Vocal Physiology” at the Bern University of the Arts. Furthermore he completed an education in leading yodeling choirs and is attended the one-year course in modern singing at the Complete Vocal Technique Institute in Copenhagen.

Currently Sven-David Harry is the conductor of the Cantus Zürich and its subsidiary choirs (Gregorianik-Schola, Bachensemble, Folkensemble), the consortium musicum Zürich, the Choir of the parish Maria Krönung Witikon as well as the Choir and the Orchestra of the Kantonsschule Frauenfeld. Frequently he develops interesting projects with various choirs and orchestras. He is founder and director of the Music Academy Cultural Exchange Program and regularly organises trips to interesting choral cultures.