

A further revised and expanded version of the opera will be staged by the Salzburg State Theatre in the 2020/21 season, with the Mozarteum Orchestra. A children’s version of the opera was staged by the Vienna State Opera in 2018 and revived in 2019. Her first full-length opera, Cinderella, was first performed in a chamber version in Israel in 2015, and orchestral versions have been staged in Vienna (2016) and in San Jose, California (2017), in a production that was released on DVD with Sony Classical. Aged 12, she completed her first piano concerto, which she premiered in Austria in 2017 to the jubilation of the public and the press. Aged 9, she composed a concerto for violin and orchestra, which she premiered in Spain in 2014.

There followed various compositions for violin, piano, and chamber ensembles.

At six, she completed her first piano sonata, and at 7 a short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams. Soon afterwards she started improvising simple melodies on the piano. She started playing the piano when she was two years old and the violin when she was three. As a soloist playing her own compositions, she has also appeared in prestigious festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, and Beijing Music Festival, and with orchestras such as Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.Īlma Deutscher, born 2005, is a composer, violinist and pianist. A children’s version of the opera was staged by the Vienna State Opera in 2018 and revived in 2019.ĭeutscher’s first piano solo album, From My Book of Melodies, was released by Sony Classical in 2019, and is published by G.Schirmer Ltd.Īlma Deutscher made her debut in Carnegie Hall in New York in 2019. Aged 12, she completed her first piano concerto, which she premiered in Austria in 2017. At six, she completed her first piano sonata, and at 7 a short opera, The Sweeper of Dream. Alma Deutscher, born 2005, is a composer, violinist and pianist.
