![]() His research on the teaching methods of 18th-century conservatories in Italy has garnered six years of support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Robert Gjerdingen is the author of several books, articles, and reviews in the fields of music theory, music perception, and 18th-century musical style. He has served on the editorial boards of Music Theory Spectrum, the Journal of Music Theory, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society, on the executive board of the Society for Music Theory, and as editor of Music Perception. In 2009 his book Music in the Galant Style received the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory. “In a broad sense, Alma's phenomenal success validates historical and practical research done by faculty members of the Bienen School of Music,” Gjerdingen said. Alma’s Cinderella will see its American debut at the Opera San Jose in December. Her first opera, a reimagining of Cinderella, premiered in Vienna when Alma was 11 years old – the same age as Mozart when his first opera premiered in Vienna. ![]() Gjerdingen arranged for a teacher in Europe for the young musician, and he has served an educational consultant to Alma for the past several years. I can never, ever, ever remember.Robert Gjerdingen, professor of music theory and cognition in the Bienen School of Music, appeared in a segment of CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday, November 5, 2017, to discuss 12-year-old musical prodigy Alma Deutscher, a British composer, violinist, and pianist.Īlma’s father first wrote to Gjerdingen after reading his book, Music in the Galant Style. But I can't remember the whole improvisation, though. "I can write it down in my notebook, maybe, for when I'm writing a piece. This 12-year-old composer and multi-instrumentalist has a very Mozart-esque trick up her sleeve - improvising a whole piece from just four notes. "I can't remember everything that I did in this improvisation," Alma says. Evan Le is California’s child prodigy who plays piano in a way that would make most disti. She adds an Alberti bass - a kind of repeated broken chord - in her left hand, and her right hand takes off, playing what sounds to be a fully formed piece, composed in the time it took to read this blog.īut then, just as quickly as the notes came to her, they're gone. Evan Le: Vietnamese American piano child prodigy plays Beethoven. "'It's difficult to teach her because one always has the sense she'd been there before.'" Alma Deutscherīack at the keyboard, Alma plays the four notes again. It didn't take long for her to realize his talents were 'insane. "You know, her piano teacher once said, 'It's a bit difficult with Alma,'" Guy Deutscher tells Pelley. Matthew Whitaker was 5 years old when he met classically trained concert pianist Dalia Sakas. She composed her first piano sonata at six, her first short opera at. Alma Deutscher could read music before she could read words. Both of them are amateur musicians, but neither understands the mystery of their daughter's genius. How 12-year-old Alma Deutscher became the worlds little Mozart. She teaches Old English literature, and he is a noted linguist. "But then, actually sitting down and developing the melodies, that's the really difficult part-having to tell a real story with the music."Īlma's parents, Guy and Janie, are professors. It took Alma Deutscher just four notes and 40 seconds to improvise an impressive short piano sonata right before '60 Minutes' cameras. A true child prodigy, Alma Deutscher has been dubbed Englands Little Mozart, although both she and her family reject the term. "Sometimes when I get the melodies, I hear them just sung, or I hear a melody for orchestra," she says. ![]() But the melodies, she says, are the easy part. They come as she walks, as she plays, as she sleeps. ![]() "I think that it makes much more sense if he falls in love with her because she composed this amazing melody to his poem," Alma explains, "because he thinks that she's his soulmate, because he understands her."Īlma is used to melodies popping into her head. When Cinderella finds a poem the prince wrote, she's inspired to set it to music and sing it to the prince at the ball. Rather, Alma's reimagined character is a composer, and the prince, a poet. Last December, the Opera San Jose Orchestra staged her opera Cinderella in her American debut.īut it's not the Cinderella of fairytale. Last summer, 60 Minutes was there as she prepared her violin concerto and piano concerto at the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. Alma DeutscherĪlma, who is British, has already performed her compositions around the world. "I just think about it for a few minutes," she tells Pelley, who patiently observes. Alma Deutscher, right, clutching the rope she said helps her in composing, takes a break from music to jump with her sister Helen, 11, on a. ![]()
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