John Pitts, sometimes credited as John Michael Pitts, is a British composer, who studied Music at Bristol and Manchester Universities.[1] He was winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Composition Prize 2003, and twice SPNM-shortlisted.[2] Composer of the album of piano music "Intensely Pleasant Music: 7 Airs & Fantasias and other piano music".[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] His setting of O Little Town of Bethlehem features on The Naxos Book of Carols sung by Tonus Peregrinus,[11] and his hymn Thy Way, Not Mine is included in Hymns and Songs of the Church,[12] another Naxos recording of Tonus Peregrinus.[13] Composer of "Are You Going?" for piano six hands. He is the younger brother of the British composer Antony Pitts.