Ilonka Heilingloh, born in Nuremberg, received her first piano lessons with Karl-Heinz Schlüter (1.Preisträger Busoni Competition), then with Prof. Annie Gicquel (student of Alfred Cortot) as a young student at the Nuremberg Meistersinger Conservatory.

In 1997 she began her full-time studies at the Musikhochschule (state college of music) in Würzburg in the class of Prof. Karl Betz (student of Maria Tipo) and closed soloist class with great success in 2005.

She is the winner of various national competitions, winner of the Dr. Josef-E. Drexel- Sponsorship (1995) and several other scholarships.

The fine-tuning as a song accompanist she received subsequently in Karlsruhe in the “Lied- klasse” of the world famous song accompanist Hartmut Höll.

Since 1995 she has regularly performed in Germany and abroad, among others in Munich, Vienna, London, Prague, Bern, Gdansk, Krakow, Kharkov, Meran, St. Petersburg, solo and as a chamber musician.

Even during her studies (2002 - 2010) she already taught at the Musikhochschule (state college of music) in Würzburg. In 2004 she was appointed to a permanent position at the Musikhochschule (state college of music) in Karlsruhe as a musical assistant / accompanist at the opera school.

Currently (since 2008) she is teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart and the Stuttgart Municipal Music School.

Additionally she regularly works as a pianist and accompanist in master classes with internationally renowned personalities such as Francisco Araiza, Brigitte Fassbänder, Margret Honey, Maria Venuti, Hilde Zadek, Dunja Vejzović and Ulrike Sonntag.