Antony Pitts was born in 1969 and sang as a boy in the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace. He was an Academic Scholar and later Honorary Senior Scholar at New College, Oxford, graduating in 1990 with First Class Honours. While at New College he founded Tonus Peregrinus and in 2004 won a Cannes Classical Award for his interpretation of Arvo PÀrtÂs Passio with the ensemble. He joined the BBC in 1992, and worked for many years as a Senior Producer for Radio 3, receiving the Radio Academy BT Award for Facing the Radio in 1995 and the Prix Italia 2004 for A Pebble in the Pond. He began composing at an early age and has written many works specially for Tonus Peregrinus, as well as other leading ensembles including the Clerks Group, Oxford Camerata, Rundfunkchor Berlin, and the Choir of Westminster Cathedral. Faber Music publish selected scores including his forty-voice motet XL, and a recording by Tonus Peregrinus of his sacred choral music has recently been released to great acclaim inBritain and abroad (Seven Letters, Hyperion CDA67507). He teaches composition at the Royal Academy of Music where he is Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology.
