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He is a violinist born in London,
England. He
studied at the Royal Academy of Music and in 1974 he formed the
Arditti Quartet
. From
1976-1980 he was a member of the London
Symphony Orchestra
, becoming its co-concertmaster
after two years. As the success of the Arditti
Quartet grew he left the LSO
in order to devote more time to
them and since then they have recorded over 150 CDs and performed many premieres. As a soloist he has made recordings
of many solo violin works including his prizewinning La Lontananza by Nono
and the premiere of Body Electric
which is a work for electric violin by Luca Francesconi. He has performed with many
international orchestras including the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal
Concertgebouw, Berlin Radio Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic and the London
and Oslo Sinfoniettas.
Thomas
Ades
recordings
Quintet for Piano and Strings
EMI 57664 (CD: Ades:
Piano Quintet/Schubert:
"Trout" Quintet)
Arditti Quartet
Piano - Thomas
Ades
Sources:
- http://www.ownvoice.com/ardittiquartet/biogirv1.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Arditti
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