Composers » Thomas Ades
99 performances.
Concert Paraphrase o...
St George the Martyr
Court Studies from t...
Barbican Hall, London
Asyla
Royal Albert Hall, London
Powder Her Face Suit...
Philharmonie Hall, Berlin
Les eaux (mvt 1 from...
Kings Place
Concerto Conciso
Wigmore Hall, London
Arcadiana
Piano Quintet
The Exterminating An...
3 Mazurkas
St Magnus Festival
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
These Premises are A...
Mazurkas, Op. 27
Chamber Symphony
LSO St Luke's, London
Tevot
Powder Her Face
Boston Conservatory
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC
Living Toys
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Court Studies
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Three Studies from C...
Jerwood Hall
English National Opera
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Palladium, Malm�
Sonata da caccia
Festival de Alicante, Spain
The Four Quarters
Queens Hall
Traced Overhead
Christ & St Stephen's Church
Three Mazurkas, Op.2...
Wiltshire Music Centre
CBSO Centre
Les Barricades Myst�...
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Lieux Retrouves
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
The Assembley House
Darknesse Visible
Darknesse Visible � ...
King's Hall, Newcastle University
The Origin of Harp
Adrian Boult Hall
Purcell Room, London
Concord College, Acton Burnell, Shrewsbury
Darkenesse visible
Field Hall
Powder Her Face - Su...
Violin Concerto
Court Studies from "...
St Giles, London
Royal Festival Hall, London
Blythburgh Church
Orchestral Suite fro...
Three Studies after ...
America: A Prophecy
Five Eliot Landscape...
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Tev ot
Abbotsholme School Chapel
Court Dances from &#...
Little Missenden Church
Christ Church, London
Court Studies (US pr...
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival
Music Hall, GSMD
(Madness) Cardiac Ar...
Town Hall, Devizes
Chamber Symphony op....
Life Story, Op. 8a
Aldeburgh Church
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(Madness) Cardiac Arrest
Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face (Movst I & IV)
Court Dances from 'The Tempest'
Court Studies from the Tempest
Darknesse Visible - arr. Richard Harris
Darknesse Visible � arr. Richard Harris
Darknesse Visible � duet, arr. Richard Harris
Five Eliot Landscapes
Les Barricades Myst�rieuses
Les eaux (mvt 1 from Lieux retrouv�s)
Orchestral Suite from Powder her Face
Powder Her Face - Suite
Powder Her Face Suite
The Exterminating Angel
These premises are alarmed
These Premises are Alarmed, op. 16
Three Mazurkas, Op.27
Three Studies after Couperin
Three Studies from Couperin
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Thomas Ades Biography
Born in London in 1971, Thomas Ad�s studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music, and read music at King's College, Cambridge. Between 1993 and 1995 he was Composer in Association with the Hall� Orchestra, which association resulted in The Origin of the Harp(1994), and These Premises Are Alarmed for the opening of the Bridgewater Hall in 1996. Asyla (1997) was a Feeney Trust commission for Sir Simon Rattle and the CBSO, who toured it together, and repeated it at Symphony Hall in August 1998 in Rattle's last concert as Music Director of the orchestra. Rattle subsequently programmed Asyla in his opening concert with the Berlin Philharmonic as Music Director in September 2002 - an occasion which was recorded on DVD and broadcast on international television and radio.
Ad�s� first opera, Powder Her Face (commissioned by Almeida Opera for the Cheltenham Festival in 1995), has been performed all round the world, has been televised by Channel Four, and is available on an EMI CD. Most of the composer's music has been recorded by EMI, with whom Ad�s has an exclusive contract as composer, pianist and conductor. Ad�s' second opera, The Tempest, was commissioned by the Royal Opera House and was premiered there under the baton of the composer to great critical acclaim in February 2004.
Thomas Ad�s' music has attracted numerous awards and prizes, including the Paris Rostrum for the best piece by a composer under 30 (The Origin of the Harp, 1994); the 1997 Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for Asyla; the Elise L Stoeger Prize for Arcadiana (New York, 1998); the Salzburg Easter Festival Prize (1999); the Munich Ernst von Siemens Prize for Young Composers (1999); the 2000 Grawemeyer Award for Asyla (the largest international prize for composition, here awarded to the youngest recipient); the Hindemith Prize (2001), and the 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for The Tempest.
Ad�s is in demand worldwide as a conductor and pianist. As well as being a renowned interpreter of his own music, his performances and recordings of composers including Kurt�g, Jan�cek, Nancarrow, Schumann, Schubert, Ruders, Tchaikovsky and Gerald Barry have been critically acclaimed. He performs regularly in collaboration with artists including Ian Bostridge and the Belcea Quartet and has conducted many orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Radio France, the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, the Athelas Ensemble and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Ad�s has an exclusive contract with EMI Classics as composer, pianist and conductor, for whom he has recorded music by composers including Jan�cek, Schubert, Castiglioni, Stravinsky, Grieg and Busoni, as well as almost all of his own music. Ad�s has been Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival since 1999.
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