Thomas Adès
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 .
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
- The Lover in Winter ( countertenor and piano)
- 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
- Powder Her Face , op.14 (opera)
- 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
- The Exterminating Angel , WP: Salzburg Festival (based on a film by Luis Buñuel : El ángel exterminador ). Tom Cairns (there direction and collaboration on the libretto)
Performances in Germany
- Oper Powder Her Face , Theater der Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg , German premiere, September 1996, production: Anja Sündermann, conductor: Mathias Husmann - new production at the Schauspielhaus Magdeburg on March 31, 2018 with Noa Danon in the title role
- Oper The Tempest , Oper Frankfurt , first performance in Germany / premiere on January 10, 2010, staging: Keith Warner , conductor: Johannes Debus .
- Opera The Tempest , Theater Lübeck , premiere on March 12, 2010, staging: Reto Nickler, conductor: Philippe Bach .
- Sonata da caccia op.11 and, played by Ensemble Modern , The Origin of the Harp op.13 were conducted by Adès in the wooden foyer of the Frankfurt Opera on the same evening.
- Dance of Death for orchestra and 2 voices, Hamburg Laeiszhalle , Hamburger Symphoniker , Jeffrey Tate , September 18, 2016
Filmography (selection)
- 2018: Colette
Web links
- Works by Thomas Adès in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Adès in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography on NZZ online
- Catalog of works on fabermusic.com (PDF file; 132 kB)
- Schröder, Gesine: Composition around 2000: three models based on originals by Thomas Adès, Jörg Widmann and Olga Neuwirth on gmth.de
- (To The Tempest at the Vienna State Opera , June 14, 2015 :) Daniel Ender: Thomas Adès: “I don't want to look like an alien” . In: derstandard.at , June 13, 2015, accessed on June 15, 2015.
- Thomas Ziegner: Thomas Adès - Arcadiana for string quartet on brouillon.art
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold Whittall: Adès, Thomas. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ↑ a b biography at IRCAM
- ↑ a b Thomas Adès in the Munzinger archive , accessed on May 27, 2019 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- ^ Thomas Adès, Encyclopedia Britannica
- ^ Performance dates for Asyla
- ↑ Data in the archive of the Salzburg Festival
- ^ Honorary Members: Thomas Adès. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 3, 2019 .
- ^ "New board elected: Thomas Adès, Joseph Calleja and Alessandro Di Profio new members" , European Music Theater Academy , October 10, 2015
- ↑ Review ( memento from October 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in Die Zeit from July 29, 2016
- ^ The sweet songs of the trapped in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 30, 2016, page 1
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Goodbye, Thomas |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adès, Thomas Joseph Edmund |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |