They later explained on the BBC Documentary Imagine and on CBS 60 Minutes that they were led to choose home education by their realization that their daughter's "volcanic imagination" and creativity were essential to her well-being, and they came to the conclusion that the freedom required for this intense creativity and imagination cannot be provided in a school. Her parents then decided to educate her at home. She was registered for a school in England when she was five, but after attending the first orientation day, she came back in tears, and told her parents: "they haven't taught me to read and write". Until the age of 16, Deutscher was educated at home. At seven, she composed her first short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, at nine, a violin concerto, and her first full-length opera at age ten. These first written notations were unclear, but by age six, she could write clear compositions and had composed her first piano sonata, a recording of which was released in 2013. Within a year she was playing Handel sonatas.Īt four she was improvising on the piano, and by five, had begun writing down her own compositions. And after it finished I asked my parents "How could music be so beautiful?" She received a little violin as a present on her third birthday, and while her parents thought it would just be another toy, she was "so excited by it and tried playing on it for days on end", so her parents decided to find her a teacher. In a 2017 interview with the Financial Times, Deutscher said: "I remember when I was three and I was listening to a lullaby by Richard Strauss, I loved it! I especially loved the harmony I always call it the Strauss harmony now. She could sing in perfect pitch before she could speak, and she could read music before she could read words. Her strong affinity to music was apparent from an early age. She began playing piano at the age of two, followed by violin at three. Deutscher also has a younger sister, Helen Clara. She is the daughter of literary scholar Janie Deutscher (née Steen) and linguist Guy Deutscher. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2019 in a concert dedicated to her own composition.Īlma Elizabeth Deutscher was born on 19 February 2005, in Basingstoke, England. She has lived in Vienna, Austria since 2018. Deutscher's piano concerto was premiered when she was 12. 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, and its U.S. At seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams. A child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five. Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 2005) is an English composer, pianist and violinist.
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