Thomas Adès
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British composer, pianist and conductor
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 27
Top works
- Violin Concerto Concentric Paths
- The Exterminating Angel
- Lieux Retrouvés
- Four Quarters
- Three Studies from Couperin
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1971-03-01
Discography
- Life Story1997
- Cello World1998
- Living Toys1998
- Powder Her Face1998
- Asyla1999
- The Diary of One Who Disappeared / Piano Works2002
- America: A Prophecy2004
- Adès: Piano Quintet / Schubert: 'Trout' Quintet2005
- MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie / Adès: Chamber Symphony / Higdon: Percussion Concerto2006
- Trip to Asia: The Music of the Tour2008
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 68,971
- Total plays
- 360,237
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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.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 160,822x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,497x
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 57,542x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,724x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,769x
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.thomasades.com
- Image
- Orchestree de L´opéra National de Paris011 (54749668116).jpg
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- Thomas Adès
- date of birth
- 1971-03-01
- Commons category
- Thomas Adès
- start of work period
- 1990-00-00
- social media followers
- 6835
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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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