| Biography | A composer, conductor and pianist, Thomas Adès was born in London in 1971. Three operas crown his body of work: «Powder Her Face» (1995), «The Tempest» (2004) and «The Exterminating Angel» (2016) as well as the ballet «Dante» (2019-20). The recipient of numerous awards, including the 2015 Léonie Sonning Music Prize, the 2000 Grawemeyer Award (for 1997 orchestral work Asyla), the 2023 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and the 2024 RPS Gold Medal, Adès was Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival for a decade and has conducted many of the world’s greatest orchestras, including Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus and the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2016 he became the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s inaugural Artistic Partner with whom he premiered his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with Kirill Gerstein as soloist in March 2019. He performs worldwide as a pianist, and coaches annually at the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove. |
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