Thomas Adès

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Thomas Adès (born in London, 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School,London. He graduated in 1992 from King's College, Cambridge after studying with Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway. His degree was classified as "double starred first", indicating outstanding academic distinction. He was made Britten Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, and in 2004 was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Essex. In 2007 a retrospective festival of his work will be performed at the Barbican Centre in London and he will be the focus of Radio France's annual contemporary music festival Présences. The festival will include the UK premiere of a new work for Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic called Tevot. In the same year The Tempest will return to the Royal Opera House. -- Orchestral compositions and performances * Five Eliot Landscapes, Adès' first opus, was published in 1990. In 1993, at the age of twenty-two, Adès gave his first public piano recital in London as part of the Park Lane Group series of recitals. * Asyla, for orchestra, was premiered in Symphony Hall, Birmingham in October 1997 by Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the 1999 BBC Proms Adès conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the London premiere of the work while, on September 7,2002, Simon Rattle gave his first concert as princip

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albums

Colette (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The Twenty-Fifth Hour: The Chamber Music of Thomas Adès

Piano Works - Ades

Adès: Asyla, Tevot, Polaris

America

Adès: Orchestral Works

Adès: In Seven Days / Nancarrow Studies Nos. 6 & 7

Thomas Adès: Dante

Adès Conducts Adès (Live)

Adès: Tevot & Violin Concerto

Adès: Powder Her Face

Ades: Anthology

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