Background
He was born in Dublin but brought up in Edinburgh.
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Jonathan Pitkin
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He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and at the Royal Academy of Music under Christopher Brown, where he was the recipient of several prizes and awards. In 1998 he attended Karlheinz Stockhausen"s inaugural composition course in Kürten, Germany, and in 2000 spent three months at the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Guy Reibel as well as following courses in orchestration and electro-acoustic composition.
Career
His music has been performed and commissioned internationally as well as at major venues across the United Kingdom, including the Royal Festival Hall and the Huddersfield and Spitalfields Festivals. He has also participated in classes and seminars with composers including Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Poul Ruders and Michael Finnissy. In 2002 Pitkin worked as an assistant composer on the Russian Psychological Society Award-winning Sound Inventors initiative, and in 2003 he wrote for Street Albans High School as part of the spnm/Making Music scheme Adopt a Composer, in connection with which he appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3’s Music Matters.
He now teaches composition and musicianship at the Royal College of Music Junior Department.
In 2001 he was awarded the Temple Church Composition Prize for his anthem Hark! a herald voice is calling and was shortlisted by the Society for the Promotion of New Music. Three of his most recent works were broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 in 2004, including the orchestral piece Borrowed Time.
Two of his choral pieces were published by Oxford University Press in the New Horizons series. Pitkin is currently working towards a Doctor of Music in composition at the Royal College of Music, with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Membership
Performers have included the British Broadcasting Corporation Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the British Broadcasting Corporation Singers, members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and conductors Garry Walker, Nicholas Cleobury, Stephen Layton and Martyn Brabbins.
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