Thomas Ades

Classical Concert Review: Thomas Adès conducts Liszt, Adès, and Tchaikovsky

March 8, 2019
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The BSO recently announced an extension to artistic partner Thomas Adès’s contract. It is lucky to have him. So are the rest of us.

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Concert Review: Thomas Adès conducts Britten, Sibelius, and Adès

November 7, 2016
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These BSO concerts, conducted by Thomas Adès, were the culminating event in his impressive first season.

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Fuse Commentary: The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-17 Season Announcement

March 14, 2016
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On the whole, 2016-17 is shaping up to be one of the liveliest Boston Symphony Orchestra seasons since the first years of James Levine’s tenure.

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Opera Review: Thomas Adès’ “Powder Her Face” — Scandalously Relevant

June 25, 2015
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Powder Her Face proved the perfect capstone to Odyssey Opera’s month-long survey of British (mostly comic) opera: biting, darkly humorous, provocative, and relevant.

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Concert Review: Thomas Adés Conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra

October 13, 2013
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra lacks a composer-in-residence. There are many local composers the orchestra might draw on were it to establish such a position, but few have the international reputation of someone like Thomas Adés.

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Concert Review: Kirill Gerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adés

November 16, 2012
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With “In Seven Days,” Thomas Adés seems to have developed a musical language that’s complex yet not forbidding: there’s no sense that his music is weighed down by expectations of the past, even as he freely refers to archaic compositional forms.

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