Antony Pitts is a British composer, producer and conductor.

His compositions have been published by Faber Music

Faber Music

Faber Music is a British sheet music publisher best known for contemporary classical music. It also publishes music tutor books, and in 2005 acquired popular music publisher International Music Publications....

, with 2 CDs of choral music on Hyperion Records

Hyperion Records

Hyperion Records is an independent British classical record label.-History:The company was named after Hyperion, one of the Titans of Greek mythology. It was founded by George Edward Perry, widely known as "Ted", in 1980. Early LP releases included rarely recorded 20th century British music by...

 and other recordings on Harmonia Mundi

Harmonia Mundi

Harmonia Mundi is an independent music record label founded in 1958 by Bernard Coutaz in Arles . The Latin phrase means "world harmony"....

, Naxos

Naxos Records

Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...

, and Unknown Public. He was a Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...

 until 2005. 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

Prix Italia

The Prix Italia is an international Italian television, radio-broadcasting and Website award. It was established in 1948 by RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana in Capri...

. He was Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology at the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

 from 2006-2009. In 2011 he founded 1equalmusic to bring together these different strands of activity, taking inspiration from John Donne

John Donne

John Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,...

's prayer "Bring us, O Lord God".

Pitts is a founder and conductor of vocal ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS

Tonus peregrinus

Tonus peregrinus has multiple meanings* Reciting tone#tonus peregrinus, reciting tone in Gregorian chant* TONUS PEREGRINUS, early and new music vocal ensemble founded and directed by Antony Pitts...

 specializing in early and contemporary choral music, mostly sacred. His research interests include musicDNA

MusicDNA

musicDNA is a file system that consists of an ontology that describes the underlying structure of the events that make up musical history - "who did what, where, and when" together with a set of user interfaces that allow subscribers to view, add and edit entries. musicDNA is implemented using a...

. Recent compositions include the oratorio Jerusalem-Yerushalayim

Jerusalem-Yerushalayim

Jerusalem-Yerushalayim is an oratorio composed by Antony Pitts between 2006-2008, and is scored for SATB soloists, semi-chorus, full chorus, and ensemble including harp, piano, and organ. The oratorio tells the Biblical story of Jerusalem and the text is based directly on the Old Testament....

, the coda of which is recorded on the TONUS PEREGRINUS

Tonus peregrinus

Tonus peregrinus has multiple meanings* Reciting tone#tonus peregrinus, reciting tone in Gregorian chant* TONUS PEREGRINUS, early and new music vocal ensemble founded and directed by Antony Pitts...

 album Alpha and Omega

Alpha and Omega (Tonus Peregrinus album)

Alpha and Omega is Tonus Peregrinus's second album of unaccompanied choral works by Antony Pitts released on Hyperion Records. The album contains the coda from the oratorio Jerusalem-Yerushalayim and the complete cycle of The I AM Sayings of Jesus. Tracks from the album have been broadcast on BBC...

, and Lux Aeterna / Kontakion of the Departed for Alexander Litvinenko

Alexander Litvinenko

Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was an officer who served in the Soviet KGB and its Russian successor, the Federal Security Service ....

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