Antony Pitts

Antony Pitts (born 1969 in Farnborough, Kent[1]) is a British composer, producer and conductor.

This article is about the British composer. For the British actor, see Tony Pitts.

His compositions have been published by Faber Music,[2] with 2 CDs of choral music on Hyperion Records[3] and other recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, and Unknown Public. He was a Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3 until 2005, when he resigned in order to be able to speak to the media about what he regarded as "blasphemy"[4] in the corporation's broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Opera. In 1996 he won the Radio Academy BT Award for Facing the Radio, 1995, an early interactive experiment on the internet. In 2004, he won the Prix Italia.[5] He was Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology at the Royal Academy of Music from 2006-2009. In 2011 he founded 1equalmusic[6] to bring together these different strands of activity, taking inspiration from John Donne's prayer "Bring us, O Lord God".

Pitts is a founder and conductor of vocal ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS specializing in early and contemporary choral music, mostly sacred. His research interests include musicDNA.[7] Recent compositions include the oratorio Jerusalem-Yerushalayim,[8][9] the coda of which is recorded on the TONUS PEREGRINUS album Alpha and Omega, and Lux Aeterna / Kontakion of the Departed for Alexander Litvinenko.[10]

In 2016 Antony Pitts took over from Roland Peelman as Artistic Director of Australia's national vocal ensemble, The Song Company.[11]

Notes
  1. www.antonypitts.com
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 November 2004. Retrieved 9 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Antony Pitts (B1969) on Hyperion Records".
  4. "Antony Pitts' resignation letter". TheGuardian.com. 12 January 2005.
  5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. http://1equalmusic.com
  7. www.musicdna.info
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. Robert Ignatius Letellier (2017). The Bible in Music. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 301. ISBN 9781443868488.
  10. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. "The Song Company – Antony Pitts". The Song Company. Retrieved 10 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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