composer | conductor | producer
Harmony for today
...for those drawn to profound experiences, my vision is to create harmony for today – harmony that transforms the listener and performer, reaches out across boundaries, and awakens hope beyond the shallow chaos of the world...
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In performance
Dances with Redeemed Creation
St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, June 2024
Composer and pianist Antony Pitts plays a long-form improvisation on his early virtuoso work, Dance of Redeemed Creation, as part of the 2024 Lunchtime Concert Series at St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne.
My first impulse on hearing this disc was to commend it unreservedly to each and every man, woman, and child on the planet
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Three ways in
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Antony Pitts is a visionary creator and transformative leader – a Chapel Royal Chorister, New College Oxford Scholar, BBC Senior Producer, Royal Academy of Music Senior Lecturer, Artistic Director of Australia’s The Song Company, and the trans-hemispheric Founder-Director of the highly innovative ensembles TONUS PEREGRINUS & TONUS AUSTRALIS. Antony is the inaugural William Byrd Fellow & Ambassador at Excelsia University College in Sydney. “His is a compositional voice of real personality and imagination” (Gramophone).
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FUTURE
a composer to watch out for
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PAST
a marvellous work
Scherzo
Albums on 1equalmusic, Hyperion, Naxos, Challenge, Delphian, and Signum, and a musical timeline of the whole journey.
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CURRENT
a composer on a spiritual quest
Gramophone
Scores from 1equalmusic and Faber Music, including XL, the companion forty-part motet to Tallis’s Spem in alium.
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In progress
Current and future projects
Two commissioning slots open for 2027.
Requiem for the Time of the End
A monumental setting, with movements commissioned by many ensembles including the Choir of New College, Oxford, and the Cheltenham Festival – a few movements may still be retroactively commissioned.
The Process
A work-in-progress – music theatre inspired by Kafka, starlings, and social media – out of which the Murmuration technique is evolving.
A Passion Foretold
A quadraphonic Passion setting all four Gospel accounts into a parallel narrative – a diatessaron – which may be performed separately or together. A fully immersive experience for both audience and musicians.
The Murmuration series
Works using the murmuration technique, one of three research strands at Excelsia.
Recognition
Awards
DMus
2026 Central School of Religion, for a portfolio of compositions 1996 to 2011
Gramophone repertoire listing
2014 the Passio recording listed among ten works composed since 1982 to have established a hold on the repertoire
Prix Italia
2004 for A Pebble in the Pond, after eight nominations
Cannes Classical Award
2004 for Arvo Pärt’s Passio with TONUS PEREGRINUS
Gramophone Editor’s Choice
2003 for TONUS PEREGRINUS’s recording of Arvo Pärt’s Passio, directed by Antony Pitts
Radio Academy BT Award
1995 for a pioneering webcast