He played piano masterfully and captivated us with his compositions. Thomas Adès has left SummerFest, but the memory of his residency remains. There was perhaps no more impressive display of his ...

When SummerFest Music Director Inon Barnatan this year invited one of the world’s most versatile and in-demand composers — who’s also a world-touring conductor and dynamic pianist — Barnatan wanted to ...

There was a splendid, soul-fulfilling performance of Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony on the Aspen Music Festival’s opening weekend, but dramatic pieces by the celebrated British composer Thomas ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook As Adès premieres an orchestral work, “The Exterminating Angel” is receiving something rare in contemporary opera: a new production.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Thomas Adès is obsessed with sound color, as he vividly demonstrated with the assistance of the unflappable Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (expertly prepared by Lisa Wong) in his ...

Thomas Adès, one of the BSO’s most frequent collaborators in the past decade, is a rare triple threat of classical music. He composes, he conducts, he plays the piano with collaborators including ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Composer/conductor/pianist Thomas Adès – no longer the wunderkind of ...

Thomas Adès thinks big. Devotees of the composer, conductor, and pianist can hardly complain about his busy public profile. Still, for fans of his large-scale works, hell is the relative rarity of ...

Program: Thomas Adès' "Shanty — Over the Sea," Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola and Gustav Holst's "The Planets." We began with a new composition by Thomas Adès, an English composer ...

The programme was very nicely put together: the first half pitting Adès’s take on The Tempest against Sibelius’s, and the second, Adès’s take on Dante against Tchaikovsky (in the form of the fantasy ...