Hila Plitmann

Hila Plitmann was born in 1973 in Jerusalem

Hila Plitmann was born in Jerusalem on August 9, 1973. From age 12 she studied at the high school of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where she played and sang. Pianist Benjamin Oren was among her teachers.

At 17 she left to study at the Juilliard School, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music.

In 1998 she gave the premiere of David Del Tredici's The Spider and the Fly with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur. She has since sung many premieres, including works by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Eric Whitacre, and has performed with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic. She also acts on stage and sings as a soloist on film soundtracks, among them The Da Vinci Code.

She won a Grammy in 2009 for Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man and a second in 2022 for the album Mythologies. She lives in Los Angeles and was married to composer Eric Whitacre, with whom she has a son.