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Pitkin, Jonathan (b. 1978, Dublin). Irish-born British composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and choral works that have been performed in Europe.
Mr. Pitkin studied at Christ Church, Oxford and studied composition with Christopher Brown at the Royal Academy of Music. In addition, he attended Kürten in 1998, where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, and later studied with Guy Reibel as a special student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2000. He has studied composition at the Royal College of Music since 2004, where he is working on his DMus, on a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
His honors include the Temple Church Composition Prize (2001, for Hark! a herald voice is calling) and two selections to the short-list of the Society for the Promotion of New Music (2001, for Voices: Chamber Music [withdrawn] and Anth[rop]ology: Five Directions [withdrawn]). He participated as an assistant composer in the initiative Sound Inventors in 2002 and wrote for St. Albans High School in the scheme Adopt a Composer in 2003.
He teaches composition and musicianship at the Royal College of Music Junior Department.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: jp@jpitkin.co.uk
Website: http://www.jpitkin.co.uk/
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Soundlessly Down, brass band, 2001; Borrowed Time, orchestra (8 winds, 10 brass, harp, piano, celesta, timpani, 2 percussion, strings), 2002; Purpled Steel, brass band, 2003; 'whipsering, clamoring', string orchestra, 2005
CHAMBER MUSIC: The Silence Seemed to Sizzle, 2 French horns, 4 trumpets, trombone, 2 tubas, 3 percussion, 2001; Entente, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, vibraphone, 2002; Chaîne, string quartet, 2003–04; Part-song, piano, string quartet, 2005–06
CHORAL: Bring us, O Lord God (anthem, text by John Donne), 8 mixed voices, 1999; The Transformation of Arethusa (text by Ovid), 12 mixed voices, 2000; Hark! a herald voice is calling (anthem), 8 mixed voices, organ, 2001; The Holy Room (anthem, texts by John Donne, Henry Wotton), mixed chorus, trumpet, organ, 2001; Everyone Sang, children's chorus, orchestra (8 winds, 2 French horns, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, strings), 2002–03; Cantate Domino, mixed chorus, 2003; Esto mihi in Deum protectorem, mixed chorus, 2003; Has it flown away?, mixed chorus, 2005
VOCAL: Extracts from a Potential Comedy (text by Alan Ayckbourn), soprano, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, harp, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, piano, 2001; Mysteries some magician, a craftsman, set up (texts from crossword clues), soprano, harp, 2001
PIANO: Boîte de Vitesses, 2004–05
ORGAN: Suite: Voluntary, Interlude, Toccata, 2002–03; High Time, 2005
(Last updated on May 28, 2008)
