Hila Plitmann Soprano

Grammy award-winning soprano Hila Plitmann has quickly become a glittering jewel on the international music scene, known worldwide for her astonishing musicianship and gossamer voice. She regularly premieres works by today’s leading composers while maintaining a vibrant and extraordinarily diverse professional life in film music, musical theatre, and songwriting.

The Los Angeles Times calls her a performer with “tremendous vocal and physical grace,” while Entertainment Today raves, “Plitmann has a vocal instrument that is simply unreal in its beauty.” USA Today quotes “Her emotional interpretation of ‘Blowin' in the Wind’ unleashes startling fury and despair.” Of her extensive soundtrack work as a soloist for the Hollywood blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, CNN says: “Plitmann's glissandi sail above the petty pulpits of earthly doctrine with an ethereal ease that argues for Plitmann's pairing with [Kathleen] Battle or Dawn Upshaw.”

Engagements in the 2009-10 season include performances of Salonen and Larsen with Orchestra 2001, Bernstein and Golijov with the Seattle Symphony and conductor Joana Carneiro, and the New York premiere of Eric Whitacre's Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Plitmann can also be heard on the soundtrack of the upcoming film New York, I Love You arriving in theaters this October.

Born and raised in Jerusalem, Ms. Plitmann received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees with high honors from the Juilliard School of Music, and has been awarded the coveted Sony ES Prize for her outstanding contribution to the vocal arts. She has a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do.

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