This website features playable and printable online sheet music by John Pitts, winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical
Scholarship Fund Composition Prize 2003, and twice SPNM shortlisted composer (Typhus 99, Nuts & Bolts 02).
Some scores now available as paperbacks from lulu.com - see below!
John has conducted four Bristol Savoy Operatic Society productions, arranging Pirates of Penzance, Gondoliers and Iolanthe for reduced band.
Click here for details of scoring and how to hire parts.
He 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.
All online scores copyright 2008 John Pitts.
A short statement of belief can be found here.
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