Thomas Adès has been played on NTS shows including Westward Ho! w/ Ashley Wales, with In Seven Days (for Piano And Orchestra With Moving Image) first played on 15 March 2019.

Thomas Adès (born in London, 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor.

Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School,London. He graduated in 1992 from King's College, Cambridge after studying with Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway. His degree was classified as "double starred first", indicating outstanding academic distinction. He was made Britten Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, and in 2004 was…