Antony Pitts was born in 1969 and sang as a boy in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace. He was an Academic Scholar and later Honorary Senior Scholar at New College, Oxford, and graduated in 1990 with First-Class Honours in Music—the same year in which he founded the ensemble Tonus Peregrinus. He worked at the BBC from 1992 to 2005, becoming a Senior Producer for BBC Radio 3, and was awarded the Radio Academy BT Award in 1996 and the Prix Italia in 2004. Since 2005 he has taught composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he is Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology. Antony has been composing since childhood and his music has been performed in Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal in Berlin, and recorded on Hyperion, Naxos, and Harmonia Mundi. Commissions include pieces for the Berlin Radio Choir, Cambridge Voices, the Choir of London, The Clerks’ Group, the Edington Festival, European Chamber Opera, King’s College, London, the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, New Chamber Opera, the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, the Swingle Singers, and The Choir of Westminster Cathedral. Faber Music selected two of his scores to launch the New Choral Works series, and also publishes The Naxos Book of Carols and his 40-voice motet XL. His current major project is the oratorio Jerusalem-Yerushalayim, for premiere in 2008.
from notes by Jeremy Summerly © 2008
