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The classical composer, pianist and conductor, Thomas Ades, photographed in 2001. Thomas Ades meteoric rise to international musical prominence in a period of under ten years, has been an astonishing phenomenon. He was twenty-two in 1993 when he gave his first public piano recital in London (for the Park Lane Group series); an occasion which set in motion a chain of events that has catapulted him to a position at the heart of the British musical scene, and of early international recognition. Ades is the youngest composer ever to have won the prestigious Grawemeyer and only the third British winner in its 15-year history. (KEYSTONE/CAMERA PRESS/Jason Bell) === , SPECIAL FEES ===