He is a violist and teacher born in Montreal, Canada and raised in New York City.
He studied the violin when he was ten and moved onto the viola when he was fifteen. He entered the Juilliard School of Music in New York when he was eighteen to study viola and chamber music.
He has played with several ensembles including the Chester, Mendelssohn and Penderecki string quartets and with the Arditti Quartet, he was a winner of a Siemens prize in 1999 and given nearly 100 world premieres.
As a soloist he has appeared with the Paris Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. He is a regular participant in festivals such as Tanglewood, Aspen and Salzburg.
He is an artistic director of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
He has taught chamber music and viola at Tanglewood, Wilfred Laurier University and Yale.
Thomas Ades recordings
Quintet for Piano and Strings
EMI 57664 (CD: Ades: Piano Quintet/Schubert: “Trout” Quintet)
Arditti Quartet
Piano – Thomas Ades
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