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Adès, Thomas (b1971)
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Thomas Adès

born: 1 March 1971
country: United Kingdom

Thomas Adès CBE (b1971) is a composer, pianist and conductor who was born in London. His compositions include three operas: he conducted the premiere of The Exterminating Angel at the 2016 Salzburg Festival and subsequently at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the Royal Opera House, London, as well as a new production in spring 2024 at the Opéra Bastille in Paris; he conducted the premiere and revival of The Tempest at the Royal Opera House, a new production at The Metropolitan Opera, Wiener Staatsoper and in November 2022 at La Scala, Milan; and he led the world premiere of his full-evening ballet The Dante Project at Covent Garden, going on to conduct it in May 2023 at the Opéra Garnier, Paris.

He frequently leads performances of his orchestral works Asyla (1997), Tevot (2007), Polaris (2010), Concentric Paths (2005) and In Seven Days (2008), as well as Totentanz for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra (2013) and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2019). Other recent works include Dawn – a chacony for orchestra at any distance (2020), Shanty – Over the sea for strings (2020) and Märchentänze for solo violin and piano with orchestra (2021). Air – Homage to Sibelius for violin and orchestra, a Roche commission for Anne-Sophie Mutter, was premiered at the 2022 Lucerne Festival where Thomas was Composer-in-Residence.

October 2024 saw Thomas Adès conduct the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra, as part of his two-season residency. Elsewhere, as conductor, Thomas appears regularly with the Los Angeles, Berlin, New York, Vienna, Czech and London Philharmonic orchestras, the BBC, City of Birmingham, Finnish Radio, Boston, Toronto and Chicago Symphony orchestras, Royal Concertgebouw, and Orchestra of Santa Cecilia, Rome and the Hallé.

In opera, he has conducted The Rake’s Progress at the Royal Opera House and Zürich Opera, and the premieres of three operas by Gerald Barry, including the Los Angeles world premieres of The Importance of Being Earnest and Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, of which he also gave the European premiere at Covent Garden.

The world premiere recording of Adès’ Dante from Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic won the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance in 2024. The 2009 CD recording of The Tempest from the Royal Opera House won the Contemporary category in the Gramophone Awards, while the 2013 DVD of the opera’s New York Met production won a Diapason d’Or de l’année, as well as Best Opera recording in the Grammy Awards and Music DVD Recording of the Year in the ECHO Klassik Awards.

In September 2024, Thomas received the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, presented live onstage at the BBC Proms by Sir Simon Rattle, and in 2023 Thomas was awarded the BBVA Foundation ‘Frontiers of Knowledge’ prize.

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