Born 1956 in Limburg, Germany, Christoph Prégardien began his musical education as a choirboy. He then studied singing with Martin Gründler and Karlheinz Jarius in Frankfurt, Carla Castellani in Milan, Alois Treml in Stuttgart and attended Hartmut Höll’s lieder-class. 

Widely regarded as among the foremost lyric tenors, Christoph Prégardien frequently collaborates with conductors such as Barenboim, Chailly, Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe, Luisi, Metzmacher, Nagano, Sawallisch and Thielemann. His repertory spans a wide range from the great Baroque, Classical and Romantic Oratorios to 20th century works by Britten, Killmayer, Rihm, Stravinsky. 

Recognized as an eminent recitalist, Christoph Prégardien is regularly welcomed at the major recital venues of Paris, London, Brussels, Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam, Salzburg, Zurich, Vienna, Barcelona and Geneva, as well as during his concert tours throughout Italy, Japan and North America. 

Julia Kleiter was first acknowledged internationally 2004 making her debut as ‘Pamina‘ in a production “Die Zauberflöte“ staged by Bob Wilson and conducted by Jiri Kout at Opéra Bastille in Paris. In the meantime she has sung the part of ‘Pamina‘ under Marc Minkowski in Paris and Madrid, under Claudio Abbado at the Edinburgh Festival, under Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Zurich and under Adam Fischer at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. After having sung – conducted by Semyon Bychkov - concert performances of “Daphne“ and the role of ‘Xenia‘ in “Boris Godunov” in Florence and under Claudio Abbado ‘Pappagena’ in Ferrara, Baden-Baden and Modena she performed new productions of “Lucio Silla“ by Johann Christian Bach under Theorodr Guschlbauer in Winterthur and 2006 of Mozarts “La La Finta Giardiniera“ under Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Zurich. In Verona and Reggio Emilia she sang ‘Susanna‘ in „Le Nozze di Figaro, in Venice and at the Salzburger Festival she made her debut 2006 in Mozart’s “Lucio Silla“ under Tomas Netopil. Also in Salzburg she performed concert performances of Mozart’s „Betulia liberata“ under Christoph Poppen.

Hilko Dumno studied Piano, Chamber music and Song Interpretation at the Hochschulen in Detmold and Frankfurt am Main. Among his teachers were Gregor Weichert, Rainer Hoffmann, Tabea Zimmermann and Charles Spencer. He was a scholarship holder from the Endowment of the Arts, officially sponsored by the German government, the Villa Musica in Mainz and the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. He has regular collaboration with Christoph Prégardien, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Christine Schäfer, Hans-Jörg Mammel, Hedwig Fassbender, Julia Kleiter and Johannes Schendel whom he’s accompanied at various festivals among which are Schleswig-Holstein, Schwetzingen, Dresden, Luzerne, Geneva and the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. Further concert tours brought him to North America and Japan.