Contemporary classical music from ARTbrain!
society & culture

Thomas Ades

(born in London in 1971) is a British composer. He is Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival, Music Director of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Britten professor at the Royal Academy of Music.

He graduated from King's College, Cambridge in 1992. His first opus, Five Eliot Landscapes, was published in 1990. In 1995 his chamber opera Powder Her Face won both good reviews and notoriety for its musical depiction of fellatio. Asyla was performed in the 1999 Proms series.

In addition to his work as a composer, he is a noted pianist, able to perform Conlon Nancarrow's Three Canons for Ursula

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Thomas Ades".