Alma Deutscher

Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born February 2005) is an English composer, pianist and violinist. At age six she composed her first piano sonata. At age seven, she completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams. Aged nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra. 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. The U.S. premiere a year later was released on DVD by Sony Classical. At the age of twelve, Deutscher premiered her first piano concerto. She is due to give her debut at Carnegie Hall in December 2019.