Antony Pitts

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

His compositions have been published by Faber Music,[2] with CDs of choral music on Hyperion Records[3] and other recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, and Unknown Public. 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[4] for A Pebble in the Pond.[5] 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"[6] in the corporation's broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Opera.[7] He was Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology at the Royal Academy of Music from 2006 to 2009. In 2011, he founded publishing foundation and record label 1equalmusic,[8] taking inspiration from John Donne's prayer "Bring us, O Lord God”, which contains the line “no noise nor silence but one equal music”.[9]

Pitts is the founder and director of vocal ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS, which specializes in early and contemporary choral music, mostly sacred. His research interests include musicDNA.[10] Compositions include the oratorio Jerusalem-Yerushalayim,[11] the coda of which is recorded on the TONUS PEREGRINUS album Alpha and Omega, and Lux Aeterna / Kontakion of the Departed for Alexander Litvinenko.[12]

In 2016, Antony Pitts succeeded Roland Peelman as Artistic Director of Australia's national vocal ensemble, The Song Company.[13]

He is brother of composer and teacher John Pitts.

Notes

  1. ^ www.antonypitts.com
  2. ^ "Welcome to Faber Music". Archived from the original on 25 November 2004. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  3. ^ "Antony Pitts (B1969) on Hyperion Records".
  4. ^ "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)
  5. ^ "Between the Ears". BBC. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Antony Pitts' resignation letter". TheGuardian.com. 12 January 2005.
  7. ^ "BBC producer quits over Springer". BBC News. 12 January 2005. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  8. ^ "1equalmusic". Archived from the original on 23 June 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  9. ^ "one equal music". 1equalmusic. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  10. ^ www.musicdna.info
  11. ^ "Jerusalem-Yerushalayim". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  12. ^ "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)
  13. ^ "The Song Company – Antony Pitts". The Song Company. Retrieved 10 February 2021.


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