John Pitts (sometimes credited as John Michael Pitts) is a British composer, born in Surrey in 1976. Pitts studied Music at Bristol and Manchester Universities, and specializes in music for piano solo or multiple hands. He was winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Composition Prize 2003, and twice SPNM-shortlisted. Composer of the album of piano music "Intensely Pleasant Music: 7 Airs & Fantasias and other piano music". His setting of O Little Town of Bethlehem features on The Naxos Book of Carols sung by

Tonus Peregrinus , the wandering tone, or the ninth tone, is a reciting tone in Gregorian chant. The chant example here is not identified as the ''tonus peregrinus'' in the ''Liber usualis'' (see LU, pp. 760–761), although it is in Aeolian mode. For the ' ...

, and his hymn Thy Way, Not Mine is included in Hymns and Songs of the Church, another Naxos recording of

. Composer of "Are You Going?" for

piano six hands Music described as piano six hands is for three pianists at one piano. More rarely the neologism 'Triet' is used, by analogy with the duo/duet distinction sometimes made between 2 pianos and piano four hands (and also because piano trio is an alr ...

, Pitts curated two

Severnside Composers Alliance Severnside Composers Alliance is an organization founded in 2003 by composer Sulyen Caradon with a number of other composers based in the Bristol, Bath Bath may refer to: * Bathing, immersion in a fluid ** Bathtub, a large open container for wat ...

concerts of music for piano triet by living composers. He is the younger brother of the British composer Antony Pitts. He also teaches Music at Clevedon School, where he is much loved by all students. He is a very popular music teacher, and has written pieces for their band such as ''Traudet Autem''.

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