She was so excited by it and tried playing on it for days on end, so we decided to try to find her a teacher.

'For her third birthday I bought her a little violin as a toy. According to her father, she could name the notes on a piano when she was two. At seven, she composed her first short opera, at nine, a violin concerto, and her first full-length opera at age ten. These first written notations were unclear, but by six, she could write clear compositions and had composed her first piano sonata. At four she was composing and improvising on the piano, and by five, had begun writing down her compositions. She began playing piano at the age of two, followed by violin at three. Backgroundĭeutscher was born in Basingstoke in 2005, the daughter of literature professor Janie Deutscher (née Steen) and Israeli linguist Guy Deutscher. She gave her debut at Carnegie Hall in December 2019. At the age of twelve, Deutscher premiered her first piano concerto. premiere a year later at Opera San Jose was released on DVD by Sony Classical. At the age of ten she wrote her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta. Aged nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra. At age seven, she completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams. Alma Elizabeth Deutscher is an English child prodigy, composer, pianist and violinist.Īt age five, she composed her first piano sonata.

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