Antony Pitts

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1985–2026years
photograph: Ian Dingle

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Re-New op.311

murmuration  ·  2025

  • Score, 1equalmusic 2025
  • Listen, Re-NewRecording, Excelsia Choir, Excelsia Chamber Orchestra, TONUS AUSTRALIS 2025 Listen
First performed
Excelsia Choir, Excelsia Chamber Orchestra, Sadaharu Muramatsu 2025 (Wesley Conference Centre)

Ornata op.308

viola & piano voluntary  ·  2024

First performed
Carl Lee & composer 2024 (St James’s, Wyong, Australia)

O orzchis Ecclesia op.293

song – contralto, keyboard  ·  2023

Commissioned by
Emma Warburton
First performed
Emma Warburton & composer 2023 (St Martin’s, Killara)

Sound Patterns

multi channel sound installation  ·  2020

XLX – Mente cordis sui op.281

50-part motet  ·  2019

Commissioned by
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
First performed
Brett Weymark – Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers, Capella St Crucis of Hannover 2019 (Sydney Opera House Concert Hall)

The Process op.284

musical/chamber opera  ·  2018

Lully lulla (Coventry Carol) (coll./arr. Robert Croo 1534, Thomas Mawdycke 1591)

arrangement  ·  2017  ·  part of The Patmos Book of Carols

First performed
The Song Company(Yellow House, Sydney) 2017 4’30

Accidental Plans

happening  ·  2017

First performed
The Song Company 2017 (Sydney)

Christmas is coming

pop song  ·  2017

Antiphony op.272

chamber symphony  ·  2016

First performed
Fifth Quadrant & friends 2016 (London)

Men of Galilee op.264

dramatic song – bass-baritone, ’cello & piano  ·  2016

Commissioned by
Michael Pitts

Come, let us sing for joy! op.261

anthem  ·  2014

Commissioned by
London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
First performed
Christopher Batchelor – Choir of St Pancras 2014

Love op.258

anthem  ·  2014

Commissioned by
Edward Higginbottom & the Choir of New College, Oxford
First performed
(New College, Oxford) 2014

A Song of Love

worship song  ·  2013

Like a little child

worship song  ·  2013

song for Helen

song  ·  2013

The Way (w.t.)

song cycle  ·  2013

Commissioned by
Peter Johnson

Christe, der du bist Tag und Licht op.249

chorale prelude  ·  2012

Commissioned by
London Festival of Contemporary Church Music – William Whitehead
First performed
The Orgelbüchlein Project, Tom Allery (Lincoln’s Inn Chapel)

Meiosis ballet

2012

Radiant op.252

wedding voluntary  ·  2012

Commissioned by
David Riding & Maria Jonckheere
First performed
2012 (St John the Baptist, Devizes)

Bach and the Art of Bee-keeping

radio symphony  ·  2011–2012

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2012

Neighbours? op.234a

violin-viola duet  ·  2011

Commissioned by
Fifth Quadrant

Opera Omnia

opera  ·  2011

Who is my neighbour? op.234

cantata  ·  2011

Commissioned by
Drew Balch – Simon Hewitt Jones
First performed
Dal’Ouna – Fifth Quadrant 2011 (Spitalfields Festival)

Far above rubies op.228

cantata  ·  2010

Commissioned by
David Pitts

Shout for joy!

worship song  ·  2010

Commissioned by
Peter Johnson Entertainments

Una columba mea op.231

2010

A Wireless Revelation

radio symphony  ·  2009–2010

Commissioned by
BBC Radio 3
Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2009, 2010

Lessons with Mozart

radio documentary  ·  2009

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2009

In memoria

2008

  • Recording, CD.TP 2009
Commissioned by
Edward Wickham – The Clerks
First performed
The Clerks 2008 (Crossness Pumping Station)
Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2008, 2009

Missa Unitatis op.216

2008

Commissioned by
Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap
First performed
Cappella Pratensis, Schola Cantorum of Sint-Janskathedraal 2008 (’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands); Nederlands Kamerkoor & Cappella Pratensis, Stephen Layton 2016 (Breda, The Netherlands)
Broadcast
Netherlands 2008

Thou wast present as on this day op.213

motet  ·  2008

Commissioned by
Edward Wickham
First performed
The Clerks 2008
Broadcast
In Tune, BBC Radio 3 2008

Rejoice! op.198

anthem  ·  2007

Commissioned by
Daryl Bates
First performed
Priory Voices 2007 (Ely Cathedral)

Songs of Zion

psalm cycle  ·  2007–2009

Not In My Name

radio opera  ·  2006

Commissioned by
BBC Radio 3
Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2006

Songs of Joy

2006–2013

  • Score, Songs of Joy, 1equalmusic 2015–2016

A Still Small Voice op.192

2005

Commissioned by
Festival of the Voice – Simon Toyne
First performed
Tiffin Boys’ Choir – Ralph Allwood – etc. (total of 270 performers) 2006 (Kingston Parish Church)

The True Story of Guillaume de Machaut and Péronne d’Armentières

arrangement  ·  2005–2018

First performed
York Early Music Festival, TONUS PEREGRINUS 2008

A Passion 4 Radio

diatessaron  ·  2004

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2004, 2005

A Pebble in the Pond

radio symphony  ·  2004

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2004

Bonnie Greer: Walking against the Wind

radio fantasy  ·  2004

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2004

Adam de la Halle: Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion

arrangement  ·  2003

  • Score, 1equalmusic 2013
  • Recording, Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion, Naxos 2006

I AM Alpha and Omega op.180

2003–2007  ·  part of The I AM Sayings of Jesus

Commissioned by
Ian de Massini – Cambridge Voices
First performed
Ben Parry – BBC Singers 2013 (St Paul’s, Knightsbridge)
Broadcast
A Wireless Revelation (2010), BBC Radio 3 2010

I AM the True Vine op.174

2003  ·  part of The I AM Sayings of Jesus

Commissioned by
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
First performed
Schola Cantorum of Oxford – James Burton 2003

The Naxos Book of Carols

2003

  • Score, Faber Music 2004
  • Recording, Naxos 2003
Commissioned by
Klaus Heymann

The Twinkling of an Eye (Fanfare of the Last Trumpet) op.177

brass & percussion  ·  2003  ·  part of Requiem for the Time of the End

Commissioned by
the King’s School, Canterbury
First performed
the King’s School, Canterbury 2003

Golden Rule

radio documentary  ·  2002

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2002

Homecoming

acoustic art  ·  2002

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2002; Silent Witness, BBC Radio 4 2003

The Rise and Fall of the English Cadence

radio feature fantasy  ·  2002

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2002

XL op.165

40-part motet  ·  2002–2003

  • Score, Faber Music 2005
  • View/Buy, XLScore, 1equalmusic View/Buy
  • Recording, XL – Tallis, Pitts: Choral Works for 40 voices, Harmonia Mundi 2005
Commissioned by
Rundfunkchor Berlin
First performed
Simon Halsey – Rundfunkchor Berlin 2003 (Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal, Berlin)

Fast Forwards

radio symphony  ·  2001

Commissioned by
Unknown Public
Broadcast
Unknown Public Radio 2001

Self-Portrait From Behind

radio documentary  ·  2001

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2001

A Parisian in Paradise

radio symphony  ·  2000–2002

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2000, 2002

A Partridge in a Pear-Tree in a CD-player op.147

trumpet voluntary  ·  2000

  • Score, Faber Music
Commissioned by
Faber Music

Amen op.156

motet  ·  2000

First performed
Oxford Camerata – Jeremy Summerly 2001 (St George’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, London)
Broadcast
A Wireless Revelation, BBC Radio 3 2009

Je, Guillaume

radio feature/fantasy evening  ·  2000

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2000

Adoro Te op.132

motet  ·  1999

  • Score, Faber Music 2005, A New Heaven publ. Faber Music 2013
  • Listen, Adoro TeRecording, Seven Letters & other sacred music, Hyperion Records 2005 Listen

Of Sound Mind

radio documentary  ·  1999

  • Score, Settling the Score, Faber & Faber 1999
Broadcast
Settling the Score, BBC Radio 3 1999

The Unfinished Symphony

18-hour radio programme  ·  1999–2000

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2000

BCAD (I’ll be Bach)

amplified madrigal  ·  1998

Commissioned by
The Swingle Singers
First performed
The Swingle Singers 2000 (Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam)

Gould, Tobacco, Bach

radio symphony  ·  1998

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1998

Hildegard 2000

radio opera  ·  1998

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1998

New Adventures

radio documentary  ·  1998

  • Score, Settling the Score, Faber & Faber 1999
Broadcast
Settling the Score, BBC Radio 3 1998

Tabula rasa

radio documentary  ·  1998

  • Score, Settling the Score, Faber & Faber 1999
Broadcast
Settling the Score, BBC Radio 3 1998

The End of Time

radio documentary  ·  1998

  • Score, Settling the Score, Faber & Faber 1999
Broadcast
Settling the Score, BBC Radio 3 1998

Love is… op.117

1997

First performed
TONUS PEREGRINUS 1998 (Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford)

Miserere Domine op.31

hymn  ·  1997

Passacaglia on Themes of Joanne Johnson variation

variation  ·  1997

Commissioned by
Paul Ayres

The Four Last Things

radio symphony  ·  1997

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1997

The Sound of Musicke

radio documentary  ·  1997

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1998

By the waters of Babylon

nine-part radio feature  ·  1996

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1996

Face to face

pop song  ·  1996

Broadcast
Virtual Strangers, BBC Radio 3 1996

Fairest Isle Time Capsule

radio feature fantasy  ·  1996

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1996, 2045

Out of the Depths (part one)

solo voice & organ  ·  1996

Commissioned by
Matthew Owens & the Oxford Festival of Contemporary Music

Virtual Strangers

radio opera  ·  1996

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1996, 2000

Facing the Radio

interactive online installation  ·  1995

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1995

Adrian Jack: Chromatic Fantasy

radio fantasy  ·  1994

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1994

Adrian Jack: From the Diary of a Fly

radio fantasy  ·  1994

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1994

Mind Over Matter op.84

chamber opera  ·  1993

Commissioned by
GlaxoSmithKline
First performed
European Chamber Opera 1993 (Great Conservatory, Syon House)

Theophany op.60b

piano four-hands  ·  1993

First performed
Thorson & Thurber ?? (??)

Anatolia op.66

piano concerto  ·  1991

Lamentations 5 op.75

1991

  • Score, Faber Music 1998
  • Recording, Faber Music 1999

O my people op.69

motet for double 8-part choir  ·  1991–1995

Commissioned by
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Broadcast
Netherlands Radio 4 1997

Theophany op.60

10-pc brass ensemble  ·  1990

First performed
?? 1990 (??)

Difficult Music for an American Audience op.51

anthem  ·  1989

Commissioned by
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
First performed
Schola Cantorum of Oxford – Howard Moody 1989 (U.S.A.)

Lord, Who by Your Perfect Offering op.11

1989–2006

First performed
TONUS PEREGRINUS 2003 (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital)

New College Short Mass op.39

1989

Short Music for a French Audience op.45

1989

Commissioned by
Richard Strivens – Raphanadzou
First performed
Florilege vocal de Tours, Raphanadzou – Jeremy Summerly 1989 (Tours, France)

The Long Silence op.33

cantata  ·  1989

First performed
COLLEGIUM NOVUM 1989 (New College Chapel)

At a Solemn Music op.9b

brass band  ·  1988

Songs of Purity and Strength op.42

unaccompanied cantata  ·  1988

First performed
COLLEGIUM NOVUM 1989 (New College Chapel)

The Perfect Sacrifice op.36

1988

A Lovers’ Dance op.21

1987

  • Score, 1equalmusic 2013

Libera me op.30

motet  ·  1987

  • Score, Faber Music 1998
  • Recording, Faber Music 1999
Broadcast
Not In My Name, BBC Radio 3 2006

The Morning Star op.24

song – tenor & piano  ·  1987

At a Solemn Music op.9

1986

L’Amour de Printemps op.12

flute & piano  ·  1986

On Time

song – tenor & piano  ·  1986

Thine for ever!

1986

Wedding March op.15

fl, tpt, pno, 2 cls, org  ·  1986

Dusk to Dawn op.3

pop song  ·  1985–1997

Broadcast
Netherlands Radio 4 1997

Jubilation op.6

1985

A Strange Eventful History

drama

First performed
The Song Company 2016 (Blackheath/Sydney)

Counting Aloud

radio feature/fantasy

Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 1997

Cut and dried pop ballad

pop ballad

  • Recording, Long days to come, Room 33 1987

Ed Hughes: When the Flame Dies

opera

  • Recording, Métier 2013
First performed
Canterbury Festival, New Music Players 2012 (Augustine Hall, Canterbury)

Go into the City!

concert

First performed
Metropolis New Music Festival, The Song Company 2016 (Melbourne Recital Centre)

Music for life

pop song

  • Recording, Long days to come, Room 33 1987

Not for too long

pop song

  • Recording, Long days to come, Room 33 1987

Robert Saxton: The Wandering Jew

opera

  • Recording, NMC 2011
Broadcast
BBC Radio 3 2010

Salvation

worship song

The Concord of Strangers

concert

First performed
The Song Company 2016 (Melbourne Recital Centre)
Broadcast
ABC 2016

The prisoner

pop song

  • Recording, Long days to come, Room 33 1987

Three Easter Anthems

Broadcast
Netherlands Radio 4 1994

Through the looking-glass

pop song

  • Recording, Long days to come, Room 33 1987

Wait

pop song

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