Hila Plitmann

Soprano Hila Plitmann specializes in avant-garde and contemporary music. Based mostly in the U.S. and Britain, she has premiered and recorded new works by many top composers in the U.S. and Europe. 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. Plitmann was heard on the soundtrack of the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code. In 2011, she released her debut album, The Ancient Question... a voyage through Jewish songs; the Five Yiddish Songs appearing on the album were composed by Plitmann. In 2024, Plitmann was heard on the album Danielpour: Songs in Three Languages, which required her to sing in Persian, Italian, and English.