6/15/2023 0 Comments Music prodigy 60 minutesAdditional highlights of past seasons include singing Nella and covering Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi under Kent Nagano at the Festival Napa Valley performing The Blue Project: Puerto Rican Folk Musicpresented by New World Symphony and soprano soloist in John Rutter’s Requiem with the Puerto Rico Symphony. Deutscher’s YouTube channel has more than 15 million views.ĭuring the 2021-22 season, Puerto Rican soprano Natalia Santaliz made her debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Berkshire Opera Festival covered Belinda in Dido and Aeneas and Maria in West Side Story with Opera San José joined the Gerdine Young Artists Program at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where she covered Papagena in The Magic Flute and performed as soprano soloist for the Fauré Requiem with Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico. ![]() Her new full-length opera, The Emperor's New Waltz, commissioned by the Salzburg State Theatre, will premiere in March 2023. ![]() Deutscher has also appeared as a soloist playing her own compositions with many orchestras – from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. ![]() That same year, Deutscher received the European Culture Prize in a ceremony at the Vienna State Opera and was elected by the German Magazine Stern as one of twelve “Heroes of Tomorrow.” As a soloist playing her own compositions, she has appeared in prestigious festivals, including the Lucerne Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, and Beijing Music Festival. In 2019, Deutscher gave her sold-out Carnegie Hall debut, in a concert dedicated to her own compositions. In 2017 Deutscher was the subject of an hour-long BBC Documentary and a CBS 60 Minutes documentary. Conductor Zubin Mehta called her “one of the greatest musical talents today.” Sir Simon Rattle declared that “Alma is a force of nature.” Her opera Cinderella has been performed on three continents to sold-out houses, and was described as “a once-in-a-lifetime opera-going event that had audiences standing and cheering” ( Opera Today). At six, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata, and at nine a concerto for violin and orchestra. She started playing the piano when she was two years old and the violin when she was three. 6 Notable Performances, Recordings and PublicationsĪlma Elizabeth Deutscher was born on 19 February 2005, in Basingstoke, England.2 Compositional Method, Style and Aesthetics.Born in 2005, Alma Deutscher is a composer, violinist, pianist, and conductor. She is the daughter of literary scholar, Janie Deutscher (née Steen) and linguist, Guy Deutscher. Deutscher also has a younger sister, Helen Clara. She began playing piano at the age of two, followed by violin at three. Her strong affinity to music was apparent from an early age. She could sing in perfect pitch before she could speak, and she could read music before she could read words. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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