![]() Alma Deutscher conducting the premiere of her Breaking News Polka, 2025, in Vienna Image by WomComp, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC0 |
Ron SillitoAlma Deutscher Alma Deutscher British composer, pianist and violinist (born 2005) Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor. A child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five; at seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, and later wrote a violin concerto at age nine. 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. premiere a year later. Deutscher's piano concerto was premiered when she was 12. She has lived in Vienna, Austria, since 2018. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall in… (Source: Wikipedia)
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