Antony Pitts

{{short description|International composer, conductor, and producer (born 1969)}}

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Antony Pitts (born 1969 in Farnborough, Kent[https://www.antonypitts.com/ www.antonypitts.com]) is an international composer, conductor, and producer.

His compositions have been published by Faber Music,{{cite web|url=http://www.fabermusic.com/serverside/composers/Details.asp?ID%3DPITTS%2C+ANTONY |title=Welcome to Faber Music |accessdate=2009-09-09 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041125032529/http://www.fabermusic.com/serverside/composers/Details.asp?ID=PITTS%2C%20ANTONY |archivedate=2004-11-25 }} with CDs of choral music on Hyperion Records{{Cite web|url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/c.asp?c=C796|title = Antony Pitts (B1969) 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{{cite web|url=http://www.prixitalia.rai.it/pastedition/pdf_trale/winners.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-09-09 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718172419/http://www.prixitalia.rai.it/pastedition/pdf_trale/winners.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-18 }} for A Pebble in the Pond.{{cite web |title=Between the Ears |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?filt=caf588b82f7d21f80e7af4bae54e9780 |website=BBC |access-date=3 July 2022}} 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"{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jan/12/radio.bbc|title = Antony Pitts' resignation letter|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 12 January 2005}} in the corporation's broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Opera.{{cite web |title=BBC producer quits over Springer |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4167391.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=27 August 2023 |date=12 January 2005}} 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,{{Cite web |url=http://1equalmusic.com/ |title=1equalmusic |access-date=24 June 2022 |archive-date=23 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623011353/http://1equalmusic.com/ |url-status=dead }} taking inspiration from John Donne's prayer "Bring us, O Lord God”, which contains the line “no noise nor silence but one equal music”.{{cite web |title=one equal music |url=https://www.1equalmusic.com/one-equal-music |website=1equalmusic |access-date=3 July 2022}}

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.[http://www.musicdna.info/about.aspx www.musicdna.info] Compositions include the oratorio Jerusalem-Yerushalayim,{{Cite web |url=http://www.antonypitts.com/Jerusalem/ |title=Jerusalem-Yerushalayim |access-date=4 November 2010 |archive-date=7 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707150733/http://www.antonypitts.com/Jerusalem/ |url-status=dead }} the coda of which is recorded on the TONUS PEREGRINUS album Alpha and Omega, and Lux Aeterna / Kontakion of the Departed for Alexander Litvinenko.{{Cite web |url=http://antonypitts.com/AntonyPittsWORKLIST2017.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=21 October 2017 |archive-date=22 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022032610/http://antonypitts.com/AntonyPittsWORKLIST2017.pdf |url-status=dead }}

In 2016, Antony Pitts succeeded Roland Peelman as Artistic Director of Australia's national vocal ensemble, The Song Company.{{cite web|url=https://the.song.company/ensemble/c/0/i/15903409/antony-pitts#alpha |title=The Song Company – Antony Pitts |publisher=The Song Company |access-date=2021-02-10 }}

He is brother of composer and teacher John Pitts.