Scott Pelley: What does a girl your age know about dark and dramatic?Īlma Deutscher: Well yes, that's an interesting question because you know what? I'm a very happy person so I have lots of imaginary composers. The first movement of the violin concerto is quite the opposite. I want to make the people who listen to it laugh and be happy. This is her composition, Violin Concerto Number One.Īlma Deutscher: It's extremely jolly and very happy and jocular that movement. That's why I, I've learned, that I want to write beautiful music because I want to make the world a better place."įortunately she doesn't have to choose. "I know that that life is not always beautiful. Scott Pelley: Well, people can fall in love with composers.Īlma Deutscher: That would be a bad sign, yes. Alma DeutscherĪlma Deutscher: I think that it makes much more sense if he falls in love with her because she composed this amazing melody to his poem, because he thinks that she's his soul mate, because he understands her. And in the ball she sings it to the prince. It seemed demeaning to Alma that Cinderella was attractive because her feet were small so she cast Cinderella as a composer and the prince, as a poet.Īlma Deutscher: Cinderella finds a poem that was composed by the prince and she loves it and she's inspired to put music to it. The story Alma tells in her opera, is Cinderella, but it's not the Cinderella you know. "I think I would prefer to be the first Alma than to be the second Mozart." But then actually sitting down and developing the melodies and that's the really difficult part, having to tell a real story with music. That's as unimaginable to her as it is strange for other people to think about a girl with melodies in her head.Īlma Deutscher: I love getting the melodies. For more information, see here.Janie Deutscher: She wouldn't be able to imagine life without dreams and stories and music. I wouldn’t want to miss the amazing Alma Deutscher. As a journalist, I almost always attend opening night, but this time I’m making an exception, given that there are nine performances of the Stravinsky opera. This concert is happening on Friday the Thirteenth, and it conflicts with several high-profile shows including opening night of the COC’s Nightingale and Other Short Fables. But with Alma, voila! It’s there and it’s beautiful. We music lovers wrack our brains trying to come up with something decent with these four notes. A guest would pick four notes from a hat, and Alma would compose a piece with these four notes. I’ve watched several video clips of her in this. A highlight to look forward to is Alma’s stunning ability to improvise. There’ll be arias and duets from Cinderella, with two excellent young Canadian singers, soprano Adanya Dunn and tenor Andrew Haji, with Angela Park at the piano. Beverley McLachlin, Naeemeh Naeemaei, Sondra Radvanovsky, Howard Shore, Foday Musa Suso and Ye Xiaogang).Īlma will be performing her own music on violin and piano. Now she’s finally making a belated Canadian debut, in a special concert in honour of the distinguished 12th Glenn Gould Prize Jury (Viggo Mortensen, Kat Von D, Francois Girard, Ute Lemper, the Rt. She has performed in the UK, Europe, USA, South America, Israel, Japan and China. Her Youtube channel has been viewed more than 6 million times. In 2017, Deutscher was the subject of an hour-long documentary on the BBC. They make their home in Dorking, Surrey in the UK. Alma Elizabeth Deutscher was born in February 2005, to a British mother (Jane) who has a doctorate in Old English literature from Cambridge, and an Israeli mathematician father Guy, who also has a doctorate in the same university, in linguistics.
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