Werkstattkonzert mit Alma Deutscher AUSGEBUCHT

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Mehr Informationen zu Alma Deutscher:

Alma Deutscher, born in 2005, began playing the piano at the age of two and the violin at the age of three. At the age of six she composed her first piano sonata. A year later, she wrote the short opera The Sweeper of Dreams. Deutscher composed a violin concerto and a piano concerto between the ages of 9 and 12. The opening concert of the Carinthian Summer Festival 2017 was dedicated to the premiere of these two concertos, featuring the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, with Deutscher as soloist on violin and piano. Deutscher has since performed these concertos with orchestras on three continents, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, and the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. Her orchestral compositions have been interpreted by conductors such as Dame Jane Glover, Laurence Foster, Alfred Eschwé, and Krzysztof Urbański.

As Conductor

In 2021, Alma Deutscher became the youngest person on record to be admitted to the conducting programme at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW). That same year she led the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in her own Waltz of the Sirens for an ORF television broadcast.

In 2022 she conducted the Glenn Gould Festival Orchestra at a Toronto gala devoted to her compositions, invited by the Glenn Gould Foundation. Later that year she made her operatic conducting debut at Opera San José, California, serving as music director for a revival of her opera Cinderella. She returned to Opera San José in 2024 to direct a new production of The Magic Flute. In 2023 she conducted ten concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus with the Strauss-Capelle Vienna, presenting her own works alongside favourite classics.

In 2024 she led the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong in a programme centred on her compositions and appeared as piano soloist in her Piano Concerto. That year she was one of only four young conductors selected for Riccardo Muti’s prestigious Italian Opera Academy, where she conducted Cavalleria rusticana under Maestro Muti’s tutelage.

In 2025 she served as music director for a new production of Cinderella at the Virginia Arts Festival, in collaboration with the Governor’s School for the Arts. She conducted the world premiere of her ballet The Euterpides with American Contemporary Ballet in Los Angeles, and in Vienna she led the premiere of her Breaking News Polka, commissioned for the Johann Strauss 2025 Festival and first performed at the Press Corps Ball in the presence of the Mayor of Vienna and other dignitaries. In 2025 she also toured Japan with the Strauss-Capelle Vienna, appearing in several cities and concluding at Suntory Hall, Tokyo. She conducted two programmes featuring her own compositions and works by Mozart and Johann Strauss.

Looking ahead to 2026, Alma Deutscher will return to Opera San José to conduct Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci. She will return to Tokyo to conduct the New Japan Philharmonic in a programme featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and works by Mozart. She will conduct a new production of her opera Cinderella at the Theater für Niedersachsen in Germany. She will conduct the opening concert of the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Orchestra Festival in Vienna—where her Waltz of the Sirens is the compulsory competition piece and she will serve on the jury.

As Soloist and Composer

As a soloist on violin and piano, Deutscher has performed her own compositions worldwide, including at the Lucerne Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and the Beijing Music Festival, as well as at the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg. In 2019, Deutscher made her Carnegie Hall debut in a sold-out concert devoted exclusively to her own compositions, interpreted by Dame Jane Glover, baritone Thomas Hampson, and by Alma Deutscher on violin and piano. Recordings from this concert have been viewed more than two million times on YouTube.

Deutscher’s first full-length opera, Cinderella, was performed in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of Zubin Mehta, and was received with enthusiasm by the public and the critics. Der Standard wrote: “this amazing girl, who also wrote this amazingly good opera, bursting with original ideas”. In Deutscher’s reinterpretation of the well-known fairy tale, the character of Cinderella is no longer a passive victim who is chosen by the prince only because of her dainty feet, but a creative free spirit: a talented composer who is oppressed by her envious stepfamily. A production of Cinderella by Opera San José, California (2017) was described by Opera Today as a “once-in-a-lifetime opera-going event that had audiences standing and cheering.” This production was released by Sony Classical on DVD in 2018. Further productions were staged by the Vienna State Opera (a children’s version), the Salzburg State Theatre, and the Wexford Festival. The Wiener Zeitung wrote about the Vienna State Opera production: “In concentrated form, Deutscher puts on a firework display of her best earworms, and the twelve-year-old is a melodist of high grace. Her cantilenas convey bottomless sorrow or overflowing longing as needed.”

Alma Deutscher’s first solo piano CD, From My Book of Melodies, was released by Sony Classical in 2019. Saarländischer Rundfunk described the album: “The poetry of a Franz Schubert, the melancholy of a Chopin, the grace, lightness and brilliance of a Mozart – all this can be found in Deutscher’s piano gems… [as well as] outstandingly crafted and brilliantly interpreted compositions that have depth”.

The first book of compositions by Alma Deutscher was published by G. Schirmer in 2021. Her second full-length opera, Des Kaisers neue Walzer, was commissioned by the Salzburg State Theatre and premiered there in 2023.

Articles about Alma Deutscher and her music have appeared in national feuilletons, from The New York Times to China Daily and in most major newspapers in Europe. Numerous TV stations around the world have featured programmes about her. She was the subject of a one-hour BBC documentary and a CBS 60 Minutes segment.

Conductor Zubin Mehta described Alma Deutscher as “one of the greatest musical talents of this time” on ORF. Sir Simon Rattle said in a BBC interview: “Alma is a force of nature. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a person her age with such a remarkable range of different talents.” Composer Jörg Widmann said in an interview that he had never met such talent before.

Alma Deutscher was awarded the European Culture Prize Taurus at the Vienna State Opera in October 2019, alongside Nina Stemme, René Pape, and actress Sophia Loren. The laudatory speech for Alma Deutscher was given by Thomas Hampson. German magazine Stern named Alma Deutscher in 2019 as one of twelve “Heroes of Tomorrow.”

Alma Deutscher plays a violin made in 1683 by Antonio Stradivari (the Bucher Strad), on loan from a generous patron. In 2025, she recorded both her Violin Concerto and her Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christoph Koncz. The release is scheduled for Q2 2026.