She often performs in concerts of her music, appearing across Europe, North America, and Asia, and in December of 2019, she made her debut at New York's Carnegie Hall. Deutscher has impressed some of the world's most famous musicians, including conductors Daniel Barenboim and Simon Rattle, and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. The work has been performed in German in Vienna, and in English by Opera San Jose in California, conducted by Jane Glover. This work, too, was revised after a premiere in Israel in 2015, she expanded the orchestration to include first 20 and then 44 musicians. She modified the plot to place it in an opera house. She has said that some of the music came to her in a dream. She wrote the Dance of the Solent Mermaids for orchestra and a Violin Concerto in G major at nine (revising the concerto at 12) and began the composition of her full-length opera Cinderella, which she finished when she was 12. By nine, Deutscher was mastering orchestral forms. Her creativity has been of intense interest to interviewers, whom she has told that although melodies come to her spontaneously, sometimes while jumping rope, to assemble them into longer compositions requires hard work. By 2019, the channel had amassed nine million views. Her talents were publicized by British comedian Stephen Fry, who posted a link to her YouTube channel when she was seven. Immediately bored at school, Deutscher withdrew and has been home-schooled. Her linguistic skills developed as rapidly as her musical ones the opera was adapted from a short story by Neil Gaiman. Deutscher quickly mastered larger forms, completing several piano trios and even a short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, over the next few years. She began to notate her piano improvisations, and by six, she had written a full-fledged Piano Sonata in E flat major and an Andante for violin. Deutscher took up piano at two and violin at three within a year she was playing Handel's violin sonatas.
She learned to read music before she could read text. Her parents (an Israeli-born linguist father and a mother who was a scholar of Old English literature, both amateur musicians) noticed her musical ability when she was just 20 months old and began to sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star: she wasn't yet able to pronounce the words, but her rendition was pitch-perfect. Deutscher composed a piano sonata at age six and a short opera at seven.Īlma Deutscher was born in February 2005 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Tickets are €22/18/6 or €44 (family ) for the main concerts €10/8/6 or €20 (family ) for lunchtime shows Festival ticket is €70/€58 via the Town Hall (091 - 569777, ) or Admission to the film is free.A true child prodigy, Alma Deutscher has been dubbed England's "Little Mozart," although both she and her family reject the term. series, will also be screened over the festival weekend. The works to be performed in Prodigy were written before or by the age of 18, and include Mozart’s Piano Sonata in E flat, K282, Mendelsshon’s Piano Quartet No 2 in Fm Op 2, Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No 1 Op 1, Schubert’s String Quartet No2 in Cm D32, Mahler’s Piano Quartet movement in Am.ĭo or Die: The Story of Lang Lang, a documentary feature from BBC 1’s Imagine. Other performers are Irish soprano Anna Devin, Swiss pianist Christian Chamorel, and the ConTempo and Esposito quartets. In what will be her Irish debut, she will play Variations in E flat major, which she composed at eight years of age.
“I have created a programme featuring composers whose works I feel are exemplary and inspirational.”Īmong those performing will be German-Irish Alma. “The exceptional talents of child prodigies have astounded us for centuries,” said MFG artistic director Finghin Collins. Prodigy is the title and theme of this year’s Music For Galway mid-winter festival - which celebrates chamber and vocal works composed by child and teenage composers, such as Mozart, Mendelssohn, Glazunov, and Prokofiev - in the Town Hall Theatre from January 20 to 22. She is acclaimed as one of today’s most exciting young composers and pianists, and she joins a long line of classical musicians who have genuine claim to be considered a prodigy. ALMA DEUTSCHER is no ordinary 11-year-old.
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