Antony Pitts (born 24 March 1969, Farnborough, Kent[1][2]) is a British composer, producer and conductor.
His compositions have been published by Faber Music,[3] with 2 CDs of choral music on Hyperion Records[4] and other recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, and Unknown Public. He was a Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3 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.[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][8] Recent compositions include the oratorio Jerusalem-Yerushalayim,[9][10] the coda of which is recorded on the TONUS PEREGRINUS album Alpha and Omega, and Lux Aeterna / Kontakion of the Departed for Alexander Litvinenko.[11][12]
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