Profiles
9/10 CROSS RHYTHMS "this album is beautiful, moving and relaxing"
***** MUSICAL OPINION "a sensitive and intelligent creative personality"
**** THE INDEPENDENT "deftly impressive"
NEW CLASSICS "beautifully played"
John Pitts - Winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Composition Prize 2003, and twice SPNM shortlisted composer (Typhus 99, Nuts & Bolts 02).
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. His music also features on 60x60 2006-2007.
ipm08 is a new album entirely of piano music by John (reviews above), released January 2009 on the cd.tp label, supported by the PRS Foundation for New Music / The Bliss Trust. Featured on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction.
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ipm08a
Also recorded on 21/08/08 was a piece for 30 nifty fingers: ARE YOU GOING? by John Pitts. It is a fast, frenetic, complex, polyphonic romp based on the folk-melody Scarborough Fair, pulled around in various time-warps. Daniella Acker joined Steven Kings and John Pitts at the Steinway. This recording can be heard immediately below on this page.
(Below that is an embedded video of a piece intended to be easy listening/easy playing!