Thomas Adès

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Thomas Adès CBE (born March 1, 1971 in London ) is an English composer, conductor and pianist.

Life

Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and composition with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama , London. From 1989 to 1992 he continued his studies with Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway at King's College in Cambridge. From 1993 to 1995 he was composer in residence with the Hallé Orchestra . In 1998 he became Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and from 1999 to 2008 he was Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival .

Thomas Adès and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, 2017

His works are performed by many important orchestras, conductors and soloists around the world. His first opera Powder Her Face (1995) was performed worldwide and televised on Channel 4 . Simon Rattle conducted Adès' orchestral piece Asyla for the first time in 1997 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and again in 2002 at his inaugural concert as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker . The second opera The Tempest , a work commissioned by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, premiered there in February 2004. The third opera The Exterminating Angel premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2016 .

Awards

The numerous awards with which he has been honored to this day include: the Paris Rostrum (1994), the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award (1997), the Elise L. Stoeger Award (1998), the Salzburg Easter Festival Prize (1999) , the Munich Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for Young Composers (1999), the Grawemeyer Award (2000), the Hindemith Prize (2001) and the Léonie Sonning Music Prize (2015). In 2014 he became an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . On October 8, 2015, Adès was elected to the board of the European Music Theater Academy .

Compositions

  • 1989
  • 1990
    • Five Eliot Landscapes, op.1 (soprano and piano)
    • Chamber Symphony, op.2
    • O thou who didst with pitfall and gin, op.3a (male voices)
    • Gefriolsae Me, op.3b (male voices and organ)
  • 1991
    • Catch, op.4 (clarinet, piano, violin, cello)
  • 1992
    • Fool's Rhymes, op.5 (SATB choir and four soloists)
    • Under Hamelin Hill, op. 6 (organ, 1–3 soloists)
    • Darknesse Visible (piano)
  • 1991-1992
    • Still Sorrowing, op.7 (piano)
  • 1993
    • Life Story, op.8 (soprano, 2 bass clarinets, double bass - arranged for soprano and piano as op.8a)
    • Living Toys, op.9 (14 soloists)
    • ... but all shall be well, op.10 (orchestra)
    • Sonata da Caccia, op.11 (baroque oboe, horn, harpsichord)
  • 1994
    • Arcadiana, op.12 (string quartet)
    • The Origin of the Harp, op.13 (10 soloists)
  • 1995
  • 1995-1996
    • Traced Overhead, op.15 (piano)
  • 1996
    • These Premises Are Alarmed, op.16 (orchestra)
  • 1997
    • Asyla, op.17 (orchestra)
    • Concerto Conciso, op.18 (piano and 10 soloists)
    • The Fayrfax Carol (SATB, optional organ)
  • 1999
    • January Writ (SATB, organ)
    • America: a Prophecy, op.19 (mezzo-soprano, choir, orchestra)
  • 2000
    • Piano quintet, op.20
  • 2001
    • Brahms, op.21 (piano and orchestra)
  • 2003-2004
    • The Tempest, op. 22 (opera), WP: Covent Garden, London
  • 2004
    • Scenes from The Tempest, op.22a (singer and orchestra), WP: Covent Garden, London
  • 2005
    • Court Studies from The Tempest (clarinet, violin, cello, piano)
    • Concentric Paths: Violin Concerto, op.24
  • 2006
    • Studies from Couperin (Chamber Orchestra)
  • 2007
    • Tevot (orchestra)
  • 2008
    • In Seven Days: piano concert with animated pictures (with Tal Rosner)
  • 2013
    • Dance of Death for orchestra and 2 voices (mezzo-soprano and baritone)
  • ...
  • 2016

Performances in Germany

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Whittall:  Adès, Thomas. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ↑ a b biography at IRCAM
  3. ↑ a b Thomas Adès in the Munzinger archive , accessed on May 27, 2019 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  4. ^ Thomas Adès, Encyclopedia Britannica
  5. ^ Performance dates for Asyla
  6. ↑ Data in the archive of the Salzburg Festival
  7. ^ Honorary Members: Thomas Adès. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  8. ^ "New board elected: Thomas Adès, Joseph Calleja and Alessandro Di Profio new members" , European Music Theater Academy , October 10, 2015
  9. ↑ Review ( memento from October 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in Die Zeit from July 29, 2016
  10. ^ The sweet songs of the trapped in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 30, 2016, page 1
personal data
SURNAME Goodbye, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adès, Thomas Joseph Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH London