At seven, she composed her first short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, at nine, a violin concerto, and her first full-length opera at age ten. These first written notations were unclear, but by age six, she could write clear compositions and had composed her first piano sonata, a recording of which was released in 2013. Īt four she was improvising on the piano, and by five, had begun writing down her own compositions. Within a year she was playing Handel sonatas. And after it finished I asked my parents "How could music be so beautiful?" She received a little violin as a present on her third birthday, and while her parents thought it would just be another toy, she was "so excited by it and tried playing on it for days on end", so her parents decided to find her a teacher. In a 2017 interview with the Financial Times, Deutscher said: "I remember when I was three and I was listening to a lullaby by Richard Strauss, I loved it! I especially loved the harmony I always call it the Strauss harmony now. She could sing in perfect pitch before she could speak, and she could read music before she could read words. Her strong affinity to music was apparent from an early age. She began playing piano at the age of two, followed by violin at three. Deutscher also has a younger sister, Helen Clara. She is the daughter of literary scholar Janie Deutscher (née Steen) and linguist Guy Deutscher. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2019 in a concert dedicated to her own composition.Īlma Elizabeth Deutscher was born on 19 February 2005, in Basingstoke, England. She has lived in Vienna, Austria, since 2018. Deutscher's piano concerto was premiered when she was 12. 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, and its U.S. A former child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five at seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, and later wrote a violin concerto at age nine. "Us children, we have the right to peace.Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor. "I know it's not easy to change the world, but it's worth it to try," Kersadis told Reuters. According to the website Greek Reporter, he is also the youngest Greek to study at the Schola Cantorum Paris music academy.ĭuring the pandemic, he also went viral for his composition "Isolation Waltz," which he wrote to encourage people to stay home during lockdowns. He has performed at several renowned institutions, including New York's Carnegie Hall and London's Royal Albert Hall. Kersadis is considered a piano virtuoso, earning a Global Child Prodigy Award in 2022, and has been performing since he was 3 years old. As of Monday, roughly 10 million Ukrainian civilians - about a quarter of the nation's people - have been forced to leave their homes behind. Countless others, the organization said, have been displaced. On March 19, UNICEF said that more than 1.5 million children alone had fled Ukraine as refugees since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion on February 24. "My weapons are my piano and my notes, and with this piece I would like to send a musical message for peace to the whole world." "I couldn't stand to see so much pain and so many people suffering any longer," he said. Nine-year-old Stelios Kersadis wrote an original composition, titled "Anti-War Etude" as a dedication to those in Ukraine. Now, one young piano prodigy from Greece is sending a "musical message" and a plea to those responsible: "Us children, we have the right to peace.
The ongoing war in Ukraine has taken a deadly toll and forced millions of people, mostly women and children, to leave their homes.
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