She received her first violin at age 3, and left her first teacher on the instrument begging to take a break after more than an hour. Deutscher’s ability rapidly surpassed that of her parents.
While her parents were academics, they also loved music and would play together as a family, with her mother, Janie, on the piano and her father, Guy, on the flute. Deutscher spent her first five years in Oxford, England, where her mother was teaching. She may be one of the most gifted musical talents of her generation, lauded by Zubin Mehta and Simon Rattle, but she is also a teenager testing the bounds of her freedom and pushing back against expectations.īorn in 2005, Ms. Deutscher subtly, but clearly, rolls her eyes at the mention of Mozart, a comparison she rejects. Sitting on a sofa in the living room of her family’s home in Vienna, dominated by a baby grand piano, Ms. Which, as a matter of fact, isn’t all that long ago, because Alma Deutscher, who has been called by some “a new Mozart,” is 14. Next month, she will record a retrospective album with Sony of piano melodies she composed going back to when she was just 4 years old. In December, she will make her debut at Carnegie Hall, where she will play the solo violin and piano in her two concertos, while the orchestra will play selections from her opera and her most recent work, a Viennese waltz. VIENNA - Alma Deutscher has not yet become a household name, but it seems only a matter of time.Īn accomplished pianist and violinist, she is also a composer, having written concertos for piano and violin and an opera.
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