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Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born February 2005 in Basingstoke) is an English composer, pianist, and violinist. At six, she wrote her first piano sonata. By seven, she had completed her first opera, Sweeping Away Dreams. In 2015, Alma made her solo debut at the premiere of her first violin concerto.Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born February 2005 in Basingstoke) is an English composer, pianist, and violinist. At six, she wrote her first piano sonata. By seven, she had completed her first opera, Sweeping Away Dreams. In 2015, Alma made her solo debut at the premiere of her first violin concerto
Alma Deutscher is the daughter of an Englishwoman, Janie Steen, and an Israeli linguist, Guy Deutscher.She began performing piano pieces when she was less than two years old, and mastered violin at three. At four, she started composing musical compositions and playing improvisations on the piano. A year later, she began recording them. In written form, these early works were not very clear, but when Alma was six, her pieces (and in particular the first piano sonata), gained the necessary clarity. In 2012 she wrote her first opera, two years later a violin concerto and then her first full-length opera.According to her father at two, she already knew the notes and played them confidently on the piano "On her birthday, I bought her a little violin that looked like a toy." Trying to play it for days on end, Alma was excited and happy, so we decided to get her a teacher. A few months later she was playing Handel sonatas.In an interview with BBC (2007) Janie Steens said "At three years old Alma heard Richard Strass's lullabies and came to me and asked "*How can music be so beautiful?" She was amazed by its beauty."Alma Deutscher is the daughter of an Englishwoman, Janie Steen, and an Israeli linguist, Guy Deutscher.She began performing piano pieces when she was less than two years old, and mastered violin at three. At four, she started composing musical compositions and playing improvisations on the piano. A year later, she began recording them. In written form, these early works were not very clear, but when Alma was six, her pieces (and in particular the first piano sonata), gained the necessary clarity. In 2012 she wrote her first opera, two years later a violin concerto and then her first full-length opera.According to her father at two, she already knew the notes and played them confidently on the piano "On her birthday, I bought her a little violin that looked like a toy." Trying to play it for days on end, Alma was excited and happy, so we decided to get her a teacher. A few months later she was playing Handel sonatas.In an interview with BBC (2007) Janie Steens said "At three years old Alma heard Richard Strass's lullabies and came to me and asked "*How can music be so beautiful?" She was amazed by its beauty."