Jonathan Pitkin - Submitted 2006
Jonathan Pitkin (�one of our foremost young composers' � Organists' Review) was born in 1978 and brought up in Edinburgh. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and at the Royal Academy of Music under Christopher Brown, where he received a number of prizes and awards, as well as spending a term at the Paris Conservatoire. His music, which includes orchestral, chamber, brass and choral work, has been performed and commissioned internationally as well as throughout the UK, appearing at the Huddersfield and Spitalfields Festivals amongst other events. Performers have included the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers, members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and conductors Garry Walker, Nicholas Cleobury and Martyn Brabbins. He was involved in the RPS award-winning Sound Inventors initiative and the spnm/Making Music scheme Adopt a Composer, and he teaches musicianship and composition at the Royal College of Music Junior Department. Three of his most recent works received BBC Radio 3 broadcasts in 2004, including the orchestral piece Borrowed Time. Two of his choral works are published by Oxford University Press as part of the New Horizons series.