  thomas adÃ¨s (; born 1 march 1971) is a british composer, pianist and conductor. ==biography== adÃ¨s was born in london, to dawn and timothy ades. he studied piano with paul berkowitz and later composition with robert saxton at guildhall school of music and drama, london. after attending university college school, he achieved a double starred first in 1992 at king's college, cambridge, studying with alexander goehr and robin holloway. he was made britten professor of composition at the royal academy of music, and in 2004 was given an honorary doctorate by the university of essex. he entered a civil partnership with israeli filmmaker and video artist tal rosner in 2006. in 2007 a retrospective festival of his work was presented at the barbican arts centre in london and he was the focus of radio france's annual contemporary music festival, "prÃ©sences" and helsinki's "ultimo" festival. the barbican festival, "traced overhead: the musical world of thomas adÃ¨s", included the uk premiere of a new work for simon rattle and the berlin philharmonic, tevot. in spring 2007, the tempest returned to the royal opera house. in 2009, he was the focus of stockholm concert hall's annual composer festival and was in 2010 appointed foreign member of the royal swedish academy of music. ==compositions==  ===orchestral=== ;asyla :for orchestra, commissioned for the city of birmingham symphony orchestra (cbso) by the john feeney charitable trust, was premiered in symphony hall, birmingham in october 1997 by simon rattle and the cbso.thomas ades â asyla 1997 accessed 3 may 2013 it received its london premiere at the bbc proms on 15 august 1999 by the bbc symphony orchestra, conducted by the composer.prom 38, 15 august 1999 accessed 3 may 2013 this work received the university of louisville grawemeyer award for music composition in 2000, making adÃ¨s the youngest ever to receive the award. :on 7 september 2002, simon rattle gave his first concert as principal conductor of the berlin philharmonic orchestra with asyla and gustav mahler's symphony no. 5, both of which have also been released on cd and
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