John Pitts

Sector: Composer / Songwriter

Key Skills

piano, composer, arranger, christian, Bristol

Key Clients

ipm08 is a new album, released January 2009 on the cd.tp label, supported by the PRS Foundation for New Music / The Bliss Trust.

• * * * The Independent
  “Stunning and seriously impressive” MusicWeb International
  “beautifully played” New Classics

Winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical
Scholarship Fund Composition Prize 2003, and twice SPNM shortlisted composer (Typhus 99, Nuts & Bolts 02).

Gilbert & Sullivan arrangements
John has conducted four Bristol Savoy Operatic Society productions, arranging Pirates of Penzance, Gondoliers and Iolanthe for reduced band – all available for hire from www.johnpitts.co.uk/gands.htm

John has written music for four plays and two short operatic works – Crossed Wires (performed at the Huddersfield Festival 97), and 3 Sliced Mice – commissioned by Five Brothers Pasta Sauces. In May 2003 his Piano Quartet won the Philharmonia Orchestra MMSF Composition Prize, performed by the Fidelio Quartet in the final stage of the competition at the Royal Festival Hall. He writes music for Christian worship, with two hymns now recorded by his brother Antony’s choir Tonus Peregrinus (including one in Faber’s Naxos Book of Carols book). He is the secretary of Severnside Composers Alliance, and has had four pieces released on 2 SCA cds on the Dunelm label. In January 2009, cd.tp released a new CD of John’s piano music.