A true child prodigy, Alma Deutscher has been dubbed England's "Little Mozart," although both she and her family reject the term. Deutscher composed a piano sonata at age six and a short opera at seven.
Alma Deutscher was born in February 2005 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Her parents (an Israeli-born linguist father and a mother who was a scholar of Old English literature, both amateur musicians) noticed her musical ability when she was just 20 months old and began to sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star: she wasn't yet able to pronounce the words, but her rendition was p...