Jonathan Pitkin

Jonathan Pitkin (born 1978) is a contemporary classical composer and lecturer.

Pitkin was born in Dublin but grew up in Edinburgh. 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. His music has been commissioned and performed internationally.

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.

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 works were broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2004, including the orchestral piece Borrowed Time.

Pitkin was awarded a DMus in composition by the Royal College of Music in 2009, having received support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

He has written for the proceedings of NIME and the ICICI Bank, and contributed to The Encyclopedia of Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2014) and The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy (2021).