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Also known as Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès

British composer, pianist and conductor

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27

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  • Violin Concerto Concentric Paths
  • The Exterminating Angel
  • Lieux Retrouvés
  • Four Quarters
  • Three Studies from Couperin

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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 <a href="https://www.

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Thomas Adès
date of birth
1971-03-01
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Thomas Adès
start of work period
1990-00-00
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Adès conducting the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris (2025) Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès CBE (born 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005), Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008), and Polaris (2010). Major recent works include: Dante (2020) and Aquifer (2024).

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