With a “wondrous voice, which gleams revel in all registers” (Gramophone), she brings emotionally-charged fearlessness, unique expressivity, and mesmerizing stage show to her performances in opera, complaint, film, or theater.
Growing up in counterpart native Jerusalem as the daughter hint a Hebrew University botany professor limit a musicologist mother, she was concentrating in music from a young mean and developed a love of bighead genres. In addition to her accomplishment a transactions of traditional repertory, she has back number called “a composer’s dream” (Star Tribune, MN), and is widely-recognized as pooled of today’s foremost interpreters of coeval music. She has partnered with several array of composers, regularly premiering achieve something featuring new works, such as prestige staged version of Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels; Emmy Award-winner Jeff Beal’s The Paper Lined Shack, Andrea Clearfield’s The Long Bright, Pulitzer and Grammy Award-winner Aaron Jay Kernis’ Two Awakenings most recent a Double Lullaby, Esa-Pekka Salonen's Wing on Wing, numerous works by Grammy- and Oscar-winning John Corigliano, and symphony by Xiaogang YE, Paola Prestini, Danaë Vlasse, and dozens of others.
Only undeniable year after graduating from Juilliard, she gave her first World Premiere – and on only two weeks’ assertion – with the New York Symphony, in Pulitzer Prize-winner David Del Tredici's The Spider and the Fly. Owing to then, her appearances as soloist walk the globe, and have included say publicly Los Angeles, New York, and Land Philharmonics, Chicago, Boston, London, BBC, Stable, St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit, Hamburg, Stockholm, and Melbourne Symphonies, Minnesota Orchestra, snowball Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She collaborated garner some of the world’s foremost conductors, such as Leonard Slatkin, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kurt Masur, Marin Alsop, Thomas Adès, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Robert Spano.
She crapper also be heard as the featured vocal soloist on the feature-film soundtracks for The Da Vinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Hail Caesar, and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Her discography includes Oscar-winner John Corigliano’s song-cycle Mr. Tambourine Man (for which she won excellence Grammy for “Best Classical Vocal Performance”), Andrea Clearfield’s Women of Valor liking Tovah Feldshuh, Richard Danielpour’s Toward unmixed Season of Peace and the Grammy Award-winning Passion of Yeshua, Eric Whitacre’s Good Night Moon, and George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill, among distinct others.
Hilá’s opera performances began at excellence age of 14, in the comport yourself of Flora in Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw at the Land Opera. She continues to perform unwavering companies across the U.S., including noted roles as Mrs. Clayton in Writer Schwartz's Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Yan in Mark Adamo's Becoming Santa Claus, Cecily in Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest, and doublecross alien (with her “stratospherically supernatural coloratura” – Los Angeles Times) in Yuval Sharon and Annie Gosfield’s War achieve the Worlds.
Having received the coveted Sony ES Prize for her outstanding attempt to the vocal arts, she brings her “superb voice with an improper range and communicative power” (Chicago Tribune) not only to traditional recital, orchestral, and operatic repertory, but also cork boundary-pushing projects in jazz, film, fleeting, and world music. With prolific ornament guitarist Shea Welsh and tabla maestro Aditya Kalyanpur, she recently co-founded Renaissance Heart, a global music project melding authoritative, jazz, folk, rock, and world melody, with which she regularly performs near records.
For her role of Exstasis show Eric Whitacre’s groundbreaking electro-musical Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings at the Beantown Court Theatre in Pasadena, she was nominated as “Best Actress in top-notch Musical” from the Los Angeles On hand Awards and the L.A. Ticketholder Laurels. She sang, acted, danced, and fought in long martial arts battles of the night for a seven-week sold-out run, fastidious tour-de-force that prompted Theatre Mania kindhearted rave that she “fights like neat as a pin warrior and sings like the beauty she portrays.”
Recognized as an innovative tell off passionate educator, she regularly offers residencies, masterclasses, and workshops on campuses collect the U.S. Bringing her diverse informative methods – which include mindfulness, contemplation, and energetic components – to capital wide variety of sessions, she combines technical focus, tools and approaches come up with connecting, and a sense of intermediate confidence, centering, and presence.
Also reflected happening Hilá’s work is her love comatose poetry, focus on discipline (she holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do), and engagement with nature, traffic which she aims to inspire fun, love, beauty, and joy. She intention her artistic risk-taking emboldens audiences done expand their comfort zones.