Hyperion Records

Antony Pitts sang as a treble in the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace; at New College, Oxford he was an Academic Scholar and later an Honorary Senior Scholar. While at New College he founded Tonus Peregrinus and in 2004 won a Cannes Classical Award for his interpretation of Arvo Pärt’s Passio with the ensemble. For many years he worked as a Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3, and then as a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music; he is a patron of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music and an honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Church Music. His compositions have been premiered in Wigmore Hall and Westminster Cathedral in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal in Berlin, and published by Faber Music—notably the 40-part motet XL and The Naxos Book of Carols.