Like many classical music fans, I was introduced to Alma Deutscher several years ago via a 60 Minutes report. I was struck by her musicianship and her devotion to creating melodies. I have lamented ...

Conducting is just the latest in a long line of exceptional achievements for Deutscher, having composed her first piano sonata at age six, and concerto for violin and orchestra when she was nine. At ...

Opera San José's opulent staging of Alma Deutscher's Cinderella will be made available for free viewing beginning July 22, made possible due to the generous support of the Packard Humanities Institute ...

It took Alma Deutscher just four notes and 40 seconds to improvise an impressive short piano sonata right before 60 Minutes cameras. That alone is remarkable -- but she was also just 12 years old. But ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A special opera is making its debut in Hampton Roads and its composer is just 20 years old, living proof that age is just a number. Alma Deutscher started playing piano at ...

A twelve-year-old British girl has written an opera of astounding wit, craft, and musical beauty. It received a theatrically riveting production by California’s Opera San José this December, with the ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Multi-talented artist Alma Deutscher is teaming up with vocalists from The Governor’s School for the Arts in her opera, “Cinderella.” Deutscher began composing at age six and ...

Eight minutes before a 2 p.m. rehearsal, the students started filing into the large orchestral classroom on an upper floor of the Governor’s School for the Arts in Norfolk. A group of about 10 girls ...