Hilko Dumno was born in Westfalen, Germany and studied piano at the University of Music in Münster/Detmold with Gregor Weichert. He continued with post-graduate work in chamber music and art song at the University of Music and the Arts in Frankfurt am Main, where he studied with Rainer Hoffmann, Eugen Wangler, and Tabea Zimmermann. Dumno has received financial support from the Deutscher Musikrat as well as the Vill Musica in Mainz.
Dumno works regularly with musicians such as Tanja Baungartner, Hedwig Fassbender, Julia Kleiter, Henriette Meyer-Ravenstein, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Hans Jörg Mammel, Georg Poplutz, and Christoph Prégardien. As their piano partner, he has appeared at the Amadeus Festival in Genf, the Dresden Music Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, the Schwetzinger Festival, and the Styriarte in Graz. He has also performed in the opera La Monnaie in Brussels, as well as at the Frankfurt and Cologne opera houses.
Concert tours have taken him as far afield as the United States and Japan.
Dumno has also been heard on radio broadcasts and has recorded two CDs of lieder and ballades by Schubert and Schumann (with Johannes Martin Kränzle), a CD of music by Liszt entitled “Songs of Joy and Sadness” (with Hans-Jörg Mammel), “Lieder of Love and Death” by Richard Strauss (with Hedwig Fassbender), as well as Hugo Wolf’s “Italian Song Book” (with Julia Kleiter and Christoph Prégardien).
Hilko Dumno teaches instrumental coaching and art song performance at the Music University in Frankfurt. Before this he worked as an instructor at the Cologne Music University. In addition to these activities, he also gives masterclasses in Germany, Italy, and France. Since 2014, Dumno has been the artistic director of “Lieder im Holzfoyer” at the Frankfurt Opera, featuring singers from that opera house.
