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

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

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.[1] 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]

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. ^ http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/c.asp?c=C796
  4. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jan/12/radio.bbc
  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. ^ http://www.antonypitts.com/Jerusalem/
  9. ^ Robert Ignatius Letellier (2017). The Bible in Music. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 301.
  10. ^ http://antonypitts.com/AntonyPittsWORKLIST2017.pdf


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