“Musically speaking, I think that Vienna’s always been my home.” The family decided last year to move there, so Alma could indulge in the wide range of musical opportunities the city offered. ( Pre-order the CD on .) In the Footsteps of MozartĪlthough Alma lived in the English county of Surrey, “I grew up on the music of Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Haydn,” she told the New York Times. Her first piano solo album, “ From My Book of Melodies,” will be released by Sony Classical on November 8, 2019. A children’s version of Alma’s opera was staged by the Vienna State Opera in 2018 and revived in October 2019. Her first CD, “ The Music of Alma Deutscher,” was released in November 2017. In 2017, she was the subject of an hour long BBC Documentary and a CBS 60 Minutes feature. “Lots of people might have the same size foot, but only one person could have written that melody.” The full version of the opera has been released on DVD with Sony Classical.Īt age 12, Alma completed her first piano concerto, which premiered in Austria to the jubilation of the public and the press. “I thought the prince having to ask whose foot would fit the slipper doesn’t make much sense,” she logically explained. She cleverly tweaked the story to make Cinderella a composer and the prince a poet, while the evil stepsisters are pompous prima donnas. Rise to Fameīetween the ages of 9-11, Alma composed a full-length opera, “ Cinderella,” which has been performed in Israel, Austria, and most recently in the USA, to standing ovations and international critical acclaim. At age 9, Alma wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra. At age 8, she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres show. At age 6, Alma completed her first piano sonata, and at 7 she composed a short opera called “ The Sweeper of Dreams.” There followed various compositions for violin, piano, and chamber ensembles. Alma recalls hearing a Strauss lullaby when she was 3 “and I asked my parents how music can be so beautiful.” When she was about 4, she started improvising simple melodies on the piano. Alma started playing the piano when she was 2 years old and the violin when she was 3. She could read music before she could read words. Her perceptions, especially calling the clear sky “white,” were reported by her father in his 2010 book, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages.īefore she was 2, Alma was singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” with perfect pitch. Guy and Janie made sure never to teach her the sky was “blue,” for instance, in an effort to understand why ancient cultures never used this term for the sky. Alma also was the subject of her father’s language experiments related to his professional research. In her first years of life, her mother encouraged Alma’s imagination, telling her stories (both classic fairy tales and improvised). Alma’s paternal grandmother was a pianist, and her maternal grandfather is an organist. Both parents are amateur musicians – mom plays the piano and dad the flute – as it seems music runs in the family. Alma’s Israeli-born father, Guy Deutscher, is a mathematician with a PhD in linguistics from Cambridge. Her mother, Janie Steen, has a PhD in Old English poetry from Cambridge. She was born in February 2005 in Basingstoke, England. 14-year-old Alma Deutscher is a gifted classical composer, violinist and pianist.
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