John Pitts (sometimes credited as John Michael Pitts) is a British composer, born in Surrey in 1976.

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. ^{[2][ self-published source?]} 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] [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. ^[14] Composer of "Are You Going?" 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.

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