Antony Pitts (born 1969 in

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) is an international composer, conductor, and producer. His compositions have been published by

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, with CDs of choral music on

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and other recordings on

Harmonia Mundi Harmonia Mundi is an independent record label which specializes in classical music, jazz, and world music (on the World Village label). It was founded in France in 1958 and is now a subsidiary of PIAS Entertainment Group. Its Latin name ''ha ...

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, and Unknown Public. In 1996, he won the Radio Academy BT Award for Facing the Radio, 1995, an early interactive experiment on the internet. In 2004, he won the

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for A Pebble in the Pond. He was a Senior Producer at

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until 2005, when he resigned in order to be able to speak to the media about what he regarded as "blasphemy" in the corporation's broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Operabr>
He was Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology at the

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from 2006 to 2009. In 2011, he founded publishing foundation and record label 1equalmusic, taking inspiration from

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's prayer "Bring us, O Lord God”, which contains the line “no noise nor silence but one equal music”. Pitts is the founder and director of vocal ensemble

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, which specializes in early and contemporary choral music, mostly sacred. His research interests include musicDNA. Compositions include the oratorio '' Jerusalem-Yerushalayim'', the coda of which is recorded on the

album ''

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'', and ''Lux Aeterna / Kontakion of the Departed'' for

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. In 2016, Antony Pitts succeeded

Roland Peelman Roland Sylvester Peelman, is a Belgian conductor and musical director. Peelman was born in a small village near Ghent, Belgium. He studied in Ghent at the conservatorium and Ghent University, and then in Cologne, Germany. Peelman first visited ...

as Artistic Director of Australia's national vocal ensemble,

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. He is brother of composer and teacher John Pitts (composer).

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