Pitts studied Music at Bristol and Manchester Universities, and specializes in music for piano solo or multiple hands.
[1] He was winner of the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Composition Prize 2003, and twice SPNM-shortlisted.
[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] His setting of O Little Town of Bethlehem features on The Naxos Book of Carols sung by Tonus Peregrinus,[12] and his hymn Thy Way, Not Mine is included in Hymns and Songs of the Church,[13] another Naxos recording of Tonus Peregrinus.
for piano six hands, Pitts curated two Severnside Composers Alliance concerts of music for piano triet by living composers.
[15] He is the younger brother of the British composer Antony Pitts.