Antony Pitts

Antony Pitts

Antony Pitts is an international composer, conductor, producer, and recipient of the Radio Academy BT Award, the Prix Italia, and a Cannes Classical Award. A Chapel Royal treble, Academic and Honorary Senior Scholar at New College, Oxford, founder-director of British ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS, Senior Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, and Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3, he made his Glastonbury Festival debut in 2014, and from 2016 to 2022 led Australia’s The Song Company as Artistic Director, afterwards establishing TONUS AUSTRALIS. In 2023, he was appointed as the inaugural Willam Byrd Fellow and Ambassador at Excelsia College in Sydney. Commissioned for Alexander Litvinenko, Cheltenham Festival, King’s College London, New College Oxford, Rundfunkchor Berlin, The Swingles, Westminster Cathedral, and many others, with premières of his music in London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and Berlin’s Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal, and album releases on 1equalmusic, Challenge Records, Delphian, Hyperion, Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Novum, Signum, and Unknown Public, including the Missa Unitatis and the oratorio-musical Jerusalem-Yerushalayim. Critical acclaim for Antony’s music tends towards hyperbole: “...My first impulse on hearing this disc was to commend it unreservedly to each and every man, woman, and child on the planet”. Sydney Philharmonia Choirs commissioned his 50-part motet, XLX – Mente cordis sui, which was premièred at Sydney Opera House. Antony is currently completing his monumental Requiem for the Time of the End, and is working on a music theatre piece with Adrian Self called The Process, while developing a compositional process of ‘murmuration’.