Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Stefan first studied piano and in 2012 he relocated to Vienna to study singing with Claudia Visca at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. Here he also went on to complete his masters in Lied & Oratorio with Florian Boesch.

During his studies in Vienna, he had the opportunity to sing the roles of Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Così fan Tutte as well as the main roles in Verdi’s Falstaff and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. He also appeared as Marullo (Rigoletto) at the St. Margarethen Opera Festival in Austria, as Dandini (La Cenerentola) in Montenegro and as Tonio (Pagliaci) and Gianni Schicci in Sczeczin, Poland.

He was the finalist of the 1. International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition in Vienna and he won first prizes at the International Music Competition in Osaka (Japan), the Jeunesses Musicales competition in Belgrade (Serbia) and the Bruna Špiler competition in Herceg Novi (Montenegro). In 2016, the Austrian radio station Ö1 featured Stefan’s career and development in their series „Talentenbörse”. In the season 2017/18 he received a scholarship from the Thyll-Dürr foundation from Switzerland.

As a lied performer he performed concerts in Belgrade and Vienna. He also sang Pilatus and Jesus in Bach’s St. John Passion under the baton of Erwin Ortner and with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Zagreb (Croatia) and Györ (Hungary). Furthermore he sang A German Requiem from Brahms in Bratislava (Slovakia), Fauré’s Requiem in Belgrade and Requiem from Stevan Hristić in Budapest.

From 2019 until 2022 he was a member of the opera studio and the ensemble of the Cologne Opera and since 2022 he is a member of the ensemble of Staatstheater Kassel in Kassel, Germany, where he continues to sing numerous roles, many of which are increasingly becoming leading roles.