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Composer

Antony Pitts

British composer and conductor

b. 1969

25 works in the index

Born
1969
Birthplace
Farnborough
Citizenship / historical state
United Kingdom
Period (estimated from birth year)
Contemporary

Biography

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

His compositions have been published by Faber Music, with CDs of choral music on Hyperion Records 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 for A Pebble in the Pond. 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" in the corporation's broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Opera. 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, taking inspiration from John Donne's prayer "Bring us, O Lord God”, which contains the line “no noise nor silence but one equal music”.

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. Compositions include the oratorio Jerusalem-Yerushalayim, the coda of which is recorded on the TONUS PEREGRINUS album Alpha and Omega, and Lux Aeterna / Kontakion of the Departed for Alexander Litvinenko.

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

He is brother of composer and teacher John Pitts.

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Life and musical career

Occupations
conductor; composer; musician; record producer; radio producer
Notable works
One Equal Music; One Equal Music (album); Seven Letters; The Naxos Book of Carols; Old Masters (TONUS PEREGRINUS album); Alpha and Omega (Antony Pitts album); Jerusalem-Yerushalayim; Equal Music
Official website
https://www.antonypitts.com/; https://www.tonusperegrinus.co.uk/; https://one.equal.music/
Languages used
English
VIAF ID
44537105
ISNI
0000000114429703
GND ID
129434604
Library of Congress ID
nr99011133
MusicBrainz ID
c05a1a13-3e7b-41b3-aba2-400542b53146

Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.

In this catalogue

Common listed instruments
Choir
Works with composition dates
0 of 25

These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.

Catalogue

Works

Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.

Works and available sheet music details
WorkYear composedCatalogue / opusKey in titleListed instrumentsGenreEditions
Of the Father's heart Begotten — —— Choir— 6
Verbum Patris umanatur, O, O — —— Choir— 6
Ding! Dong! meriily on high — —— Choir— 6
Hail To The Lord's Anointed — —— Choir— 6
Away In A Manger — —— Choir— 5
Jesu, the very thought is sweet — —— Choir— 5
Lo, there a Rose is blooming — —— Choir— 4
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing — —— Choir— 4
Personent hodie — —— Choir— 3
We Three Kings Of Orient Are — —— Choir— 3
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel — —— Choir— 1
O quickly come — —— Choir— 1
Lo! He Comes — —— Choir— 1
The Holly and the Ivy — —— Choir— 1
Alleluya - a new work — —— Choir— 1
While Shepherds Watched — —— Choir— 1
The Song of Angels — —— Choir— 1
Silent Night — —— Choir— 1
Baby Jesus, hush! Now sleep — —— Choir— 1
O Little Town of Bethlehem — —— Choir— 1
O Come, All Ye Faithful — —— Choir— 1
In dulci jubilo — —— Choir— 1
Good King Wenceslas — —— Choir— 1
I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In — —— Choir— 1
Adoro Te — —— —— 0

Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 44537105.