conductor
Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès is one of the leading composers of our time. His music is stylistically eclectic yet highly original and of a mind-blowing creativity. The Englishman broke on to the international scene with his first opera, Powder Her Face, in 1995. Four years later, his orchestral work Asyla won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award. His operas The Tempest and The Exterminating Angel, his Violin Concerto and his string quartets were also big hits with critics and audiences alike.
Adès regularly conducts such orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the symphony orchestras of Melbourne and Sydney, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has led Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at the opera houses of London and Zurich, and his own opera The Tempest in New York and Vienna. Thomas Adès served as artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival from 1999 to 2008.
Compositions by Thomas Adès have been performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra since as far back as 1995. Since 2011, Adès is a regular guest, conducting the orchestra in works by himself and other composers. In 2016 he led his newly commissioned Totentanz. In 2019 he juxtaposed music from his Powder Her Face with Debussy, Poulenc and Barry. During his last visit in 2022 he led another commission, his Piano Concerto featuring Kirill Gerstein.
Thomas Adès is one of the leading composers of our time. His music is stylistically eclectic yet highly original and of a mind-blowing creativity. The Englishman broke on to the international scene with his first opera, Powder Her Face, in 1995. Four years later, his orchestral work Asyla won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award. His operas The Tempest and The Exterminating Angel, his Violin Concerto and his string quartets were also big hits with critics and audiences alike.
Adès regularly conducts such orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the symphony orchestras of Melbourne and Sydney, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has led Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at the opera houses of London and Zurich, and his own opera The Tempest in New York and Vienna. Thomas Adès served as artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival from 1999 to 2008.
Compositions by Thomas Adès have been performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra since as far back as 1995. Since 2011, Adès is a regular guest, conducting the orchestra in works by himself and other composers. In 2016 he led his newly commissioned Totentanz. In 2019 he juxtaposed music from his Powder Her Face with Debussy, Poulenc and Barry. During his last visit in 2022 he led another commission, his Piano Concerto featuring Kirill Gerstein.
Thomas Adès is one of the leading composers of our time. His music is stylistically eclectic yet highly original and of a mind-blowing creativity. The Englishman broke on to the international scene with his first opera, Powder Her Face, in 1995. Four years later, his orchestral work Asyla won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award. His operas The Tempest and The Exterminating Angel, his Violin Concerto and his string quartets were also big hits with critics and audiences alike.
Adès regularly conducts such orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the symphony orchestras of Melbourne and Sydney, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has led Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at the opera houses of London and Zurich, and his own opera The Tempest in New York and Vienna. Thomas Adès served as artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival from 1999 to 2008.
Compositions by Thomas Adès have been performed by the Concertgebouw Orchestra since as far back as 1995. Since 2011, Adès is a regular guest, conducting the orchestra in works by himself and other composers. In 2016 he led his newly commissioned Totentanz. In 2019 he juxtaposed music from his Powder Her Face with Debussy, Poulenc and Barry. During his last visit in 2022 he led another commission, his Piano Concerto featuring Kirill Gerstein.