![]() But I can't remember the whole improvisation, though. "I can write it down in my notebook, maybe, for when I'm writing a piece. "I can't remember everything that I did in this improvisation," Alma says. ![]() She adds an Alberti bass - a kind of repeated broken chord - in her left hand, and her right hand takes off, playing what sounds to be a fully formed piece, composed in the time it took to read this blog.īut then, just as quickly as the notes came to her, they're gone. "'It's difficult to teach her because one always has the sense she'd been there before.'" Alma Deutscherīack at the keyboard, Alma plays the four notes again. "You know, her piano teacher once said, 'It's a bit difficult with Alma,'" Guy Deutscher tells Pelley. She started playing the piano when she was two years old and the violin when she was three. Both of them are amateur musicians, but neither understands the mystery of their daughter's genius. Alma Deutscher, born 2005, is a composer, violinist and pianist. She teaches Old English literature, and he is a noted linguist. Alma Deutscher was born in 2005 in Basingstoke, England, the daughter of literature professor Janie Deutscher and Israeli linguist Guy Deutscher, both amateur musicians. ![]() "But then, actually sitting down and developing the melodies, that's the really difficult part-having to tell a real story with the music."Īlma's parents, Guy and Janie, are professors. "Sometimes when I get the melodies, I hear them just sung, or I hear a melody for orchestra," she says. But the melodies, she says, are the easy part. They come as she walks, as she plays, as she sleeps. "I think that it makes much more sense if he falls in love with her because she composed this amazing melody to his poem," Alma explains, "because he thinks that she's his soulmate, because he understands her."Īlma is used to melodies popping into her head. When Cinderella finds a poem the prince wrote, she's inspired to set it to music and sing it to the prince at the ball. Rather, Alma's reimagined character is a composer, and the prince, a poet. In December 2017, the Opera San Jose Orchestra staged her opera Cinderella in her American debut.īut it's not the Cinderella of fairytale. The young Brit is a composer, violinist and pianist, and above she performed Mozart's Piano Concerto K 246, which also includes a cadenza written by Alma herself. Two years ago, "60 Minutes" was there as she prepared her violin concerto and piano concerto at the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. Alma playing Mozart piano concerto K.246, with cadenza by Alma Deutscher Watch on Now 16 years of age, Alma Deutscher was just ten years old when this video was recorded back in 2015. ![]() Alma DeutscherĪlma, who is British, has already performed her compositions around the world. Tuesday 07 November 2017 11:39 Comments 12-year-old piano prodigy creates beauty from four randomly chose notes All it takes Alma Deutscher is four notes and 40 seconds. "I just think about it for a few minutes," she tells Pelley, who patiently observes. ![]()
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