Thomas Adès
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Emerging from a London family of scholars-his mother an art historian, his father a poet-Thomas Adès refined his pianistic skills under Paul Berkowitz before turning to composition with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School, later earning a double-starred first at King’s College, Cambridge under Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway. His early orchestral breakthrough arrived with Asyla, which secured…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources