ALBUMThe Twenty-Fifth Hour: The Chamber Music of Thomas AdèsCalder Quartet & Thomas Adès
ALBUMPorträt-Reihe: Travelling Pieces (Ensemble Modern Presents Saar Berger & Ensemble Modern)Saar Berger & Ensemble Modern
ALBUMAdès: Polaris - Stanhope: Piccolo Concerto (MSO Live)Benjamin Northey, Markus Stenz, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Macleod
ALBUMLieux retrouvés: Music for Cello & Piano – Liszt, Fauré, Janáček, Kurtág, AdèsSteven Isserlis & Thomas Adès
ALBUMThomas Adès, MahlerNew York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert
ALBUMAdès: In Seven Days / Nancarrow Studies Nos. 6 & 7London Sinfonietta
ALBUM10. Sinfoniekonzert 2010/2011Gürzenich-Orchester Köln & Markus Stenz
ALBUMBritish Composers - Ades: America A ProphecyThomas Adès
ALBUMBritish Composers - Ades: Powder Her Face.Thomas Adès
ALBUMBritish Composers - Ades: Life StoryThomas Adès
ALBUMStravinsky: Complete Music for Violin & PianoAnthony Marwood & Thomas Adès
ALBUMFrom Baroque to Berkeley LiveNew York Philomusica, Gerard Reuter, Andrew Clark, Katrina Russell, Christopher Oldfather, Katharina Grossmann, Leslie Tomkins, Gerald K. Appleman & Gail Kruvand
ALBUMMacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie - Adès: Chamber Symphony No. 2 - Higdon: Percussion ConcertoMarin Alsop, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Colin Currie
ALBUMBridgesKuss Quartet
ALBUMAdès: Piano Quintet & Schubert: Piano QuintetThomas Adès
ALBUMAmericaThomas Adès
ALBUMJanácek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared & 15 Moravian Folksongs for PianoIan Bostridge & Thomas Adès
ALBUM20th Century Piano MusicThomas Adès
ALBUMAdès: AsylaCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle & Thomas Adès
ALBUMAdès: Living ToysThomas Adès
ALBUMAdès: Powder Her FaceJill Gomez & Thomas Adès
ALBUMPiano Works - AdesAnthony Marwood, David Goode, Louise Hopkins, Lynsey Marsh, Mary Carewe, Simon Woods, Stephen Farr, Thomas Adès & Valdine Anderson
Thomas Adès's Popular Music Videos
Mazurka No. 2, Op. 27 No. 2
Han Chen
Gyökér
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Oliver Zeffman, Katalin Karolyi & Ricardo Gallardo
Adès: Asyla, Op. 17: III. Ecstasio (Live from Barbican)
London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle
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Adès’ music manages to look forward and back, yet remains utterly of our time.
About Thomas Adès
Artist Biography
Thomas Adès was born in London in 1971, into an artistic family with Syrian Jewish roots. He gave his first public piano recital in the Purcell Room at London’s South Bank Centre in 1993, launching a triple international career as a composer, pianist and conductor. His music was already remarkable for its spectacular variety of techniques and styles, ranging from the sumptuous solo pianism of Traced Overhead to a bleak Tennessee Williams song setting, Life Story. This range of qualities came together in Adès’ first major success, his opera Powder Her Face (1995), a portrait of the disintegrating lifestyle of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, after her 1963 divorce. High-profile orchestral commissions followed, including America: A Prophecy for the New York Philharmonic in 1999. Then came the virtuoso fantasy of The Tempest, based on Shakespeare’s play and performed at London’s Royal Opera House in 2004, with Adès himself conducting. He has continued to be a prolific creative force on multiple fronts. In 2016 came The Exterminating Angel, an operatic re-working of Luis Buñuel’s film, conducted by Adès at the Salzburg Festival. In 2018 he wrote the score for the film Colette, starring Keira Knightley. Adès’s major project of recent years has been Dante, a ballet score in three parts, “Inferno”, “Purgatorio” and “Paradiso”, based on the Italian poet’s Divine Comedy.
Hometown
London, England
Genre
Classical
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