Thomas ades composer biography worksheet

British composer, pianist and conductor

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Thomas Joseph Edmund AdèsCBE (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).^[1]

Biography

Adès was born in London to art historian Dawn Adès and poet Timothy Adès.

His surname is of Syrian Jewish origin.^[2] Adès is gay and identified his sexuality closely with the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in his youth.^[3]

Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.

After attending University College School, he achieved a double starred first in 1992 at King's College, Cambridge, studying with Alexander Goehr