Hila Plitmann
Soprano Hila Plitmann specializes in avant-garde and contemporary music. She has premiered and recorded new works by many top composers in the U.S. and Europe.
Plitmann was born on August 9, 1973, in Jerusalem. She attended the Juilliard School, earning bachelor's and master's degrees there with high honors. Plitmann has been based for most of her career in the U.S. or Britain, although she has continued to perform in Israel. An important milestone in Plitmann's early career was her 1998 performance in David Del Tredici's The Spider and the Fly, with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur. That began a long series of Plitmann premieres of works by major composers including Esa-Pekka Salonen (Wing on Wing, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall), John Corigliano (Mr. Tambourine Man, with the Buffalo Philharmonic under JoAnn Falletta), and Aaron Jay Kernis, who wrote a song cycle expressly for Plitmann. Another composer whose works Plitmann often performed was Eric Whitacre, to whom she was married from 1998 to 2017. Plitmann has appeared with top orchestral ensembles in the U.S. and beyond, including the Chicago Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic. A notable feature of Plitmann's premieres is that she performs them from memory, believing that by doing so, she can enter more deeply into the figure or character she is portraying. Plitmann was heard on the soundtrack of the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code, and she sometimes performs songs of her own.
Plitmann has recorded many of the new works she has premiered. Her albums have appeared on Delos, Naxos, BIS, and other labels. In 2011, she released The Ancient Question... a voyage through Jewish songs on the Signum Classics label; the Five Yiddish Songs appearing on the album were composed by Plitmann. The following year she was heard on the recording of Whitacre's setting of the children's story Goodnight Moon. In 2020, Plitmann was heard as Miryam Magdala (Mary Magdalene) in the world premiere recording of Richard Danielpour's oratorio The Passion of Yeshua.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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David Del Tredici: Adventures Underground
Albany Symphony, Hila Plitmann
Classical - Released by Albany Records on Dec 1, 2022
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Walton: The Complete Façades
Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, Fred Child, Kevin Deas, Hila Plitmann , JoAnn Falletta
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on Sep 9, 2022
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Michael Daugherty: Songs from a Silent Land
Damon Talley, Hila Plitmann , Louisiana State University Wind Ensemble
Chamber Music - Released by Equilibrium on Sep 18, 2019
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Poetics
University of Michigan Symphony Band, Timothy McAllister, Hila Plitmann
Classical - Released by Soundset on Nov 10, 2016
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Darkness in the Ancient Valley
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep 3, 2013
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Fly to Paradise
Eric Whitacre Singers, Guy Sigsworth, Hila Plitmann
Classical - Released by UNQUIET on Jul 8, 2013
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The Ancient Question: A Voyage Through Jewish Songs
Classical - Released by Signum Records on Dec 5, 2011
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CORIGLIANO, J.: Mr. Tambourine Man / 3 Hallucinations (Plitmann, Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta)
Classical - Released by Naxos on Sep 30, 2008
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New American Chamber Music for Guitar
Hila Plitmann , San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Ensemble, Axel Strauss, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, David Tanenbaum, Aaron Jay Kernis
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Naxos on Aug 24, 2010
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Richard Danielpour: String Quartets Nos. 5-7
Delray String Quartet, Hila Plitmann
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on Jan 12, 2018
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Del Tredici: Lament for the Death of A Bullfighter / Chana's Story
Hila Plitmann , Miriam Abramowitsch, David Del Tredici
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Music and Arts Programs of America on Apr 1, 2011
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Time and Distance
Janelle DeStefano, Hila Plitmann , Carol Rosenberger, Tali Tadmor, Bruce Carver, Mark Abel
Classical - Released by Delos on Mar 9, 2018
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Danielpour: Toward a Season of Peace
Hila Plitmann , Pacific Chorale, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Carl St. Clair
Classical - Released by Naxos on Mar 4, 2014
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Vintage Alice - Dracula (David Del Tredici - Lewis Carroll - Alfred Corn)
Classical - Released by Innova on Mar 4, 2008
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Richard Danielpour: Ancient Voices
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Hila Plitmann , Giancarlo Guerrero, Pacific Chorale, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Carl St. Clair
Classical - Released by Naxos on Jun 2, 2015
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Sing Me a Story
Classical - Released by Delos on Jul 19, 2019
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Love Will Conquer Again
Pop - Released by Hila Plitmann on Dec 6, 2019
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