The prince then searches the kingdom not for a foot to fit a glass slipper, but for the melody he heard but can’t quite remember. Instead, Cinderella sets one of the 18th-century galant’s poems to music and sings it at the ball, leaving before midnight. There was no giant pumpkin in the opera, nor did the prince find Cinderella’s lost shoe, like in more famous versions of the tale. So Cinderella finds a poem that the prince has written and is inspired to put it to music. She has cleverly tweaked the story to make Cinderella a composer “like her” and the prince a poet, setting it in an opera house run by the wicked stepmother. She composed Cinderella opera between the ages of 8-12 (2013-2017). She has also made appearances on 60 Minutes and the Ellen Degeneres Show, where She could improvise an original piano sonata by four random notes.Īlma said about how she gets musical inspiration for her Cinderella opera: “quite a few of my melodies and themes for this opera came while I was skipping”. At six she made her own sonata at seven a short opera based on a Neil Gaiman story for a competition. Her musical compositions have been criticized as “unmodern.” It seems that she does not engage with the music of our time, and that her musical tastes seem to stall around 1900! She is not a fan of jazz or pop, as well.Īlma is A true example of a child prodigy, the young composer could pick out tunes on the piano at the age of three, and began composing by age four. She said: “Schubert, I love Schubert, and of course Mozart, and Tchaikovsky - and for counterpoint and that sort of stuff, Bach,” In an interview, Alma answered the question who have had most influence on her work? Who have had most influence on Alma’s work? However, she replied to people who are comparing her to Mozart: “Of course, I love Mozart, and I would love him to be my teacher, but I think I would prefer to be the first Alma than to be the second Mozart.”Īlma’s YouTube channel features clips of her playing her own compositions and works by famous composers. So, Now she is being recognized by some as “Little Miss Mozart”. First international attention:Īlma first gained international attention in 2012 after a family friend posted a tweet comparing her to Mozart. She says: ‘I think that I learn at home in one hour what it would take at school five hours to learn’. She also jumps ropes and meets up with other children for activities, such as ballet, swimming. While her parents used to play instruments with her at home, Mr Deutscher admitted they had given up several years ago after her talents far outstripped theirs.Īlma is home-schooled and fills her time practicing her violin or her piano while most other subjects are taught by her parents. Her Israeli-born father is a highly regarded linguist and amateur flautist, while her mother is a scholar of medieval English literature. She is currently playing a priceless Guarneri del Gesù instrument on loan.Īlma was born in Oxford in 2005 and she lives in Surrey, England with her parents, Guy and Janie, and younger sister, Helen. She has met, and played to, a roll call of music greats including pianist Murray Perahia, conductor Zubin Mehta and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. On October 12, 2019, she received the Beijing Music Festival’s Young Musician Award 2019. Her music oscillates between a certain classicism and a passionate romanticism reminiscent.Īlma received the European Culture Prize in a ceremony at the Vienna State Opera. This young girl is an accomplished composer of classical sonatas, piano and violin concertos, and operas. As well as being a talented pianist and violinist. She has performed all over Europe, in China and Japan, and in the United States. A composer, violinist, and pianist, Alma started playing the piano when she was two years old and the violin when she was three and was playing Handel sonatas within a year, before moving on to her own compositions at the age of four. Just 15 years old, A world-class composer and she performs her original compositions including an opera called Cinderella: what a star!īefore we talk about her works and Cinderella opera, let’s know more about Alma.Īlma Deutscher is one of the most gifted musical talents of her generation, lauded by Zubin Mehta and Simon Rattle. You will enjoy this glimpse of the young girl’s exceptional early talent, Alma Deutscher. Her unbelievable accomplishments has made international classical music media sit up. A child prodigy who has made the jump to full classical stardom.
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