About


"I always try to follow my inner visions for my music, making my own voice heard in whatever type of ensemble I write for." 

 

Jonathan Mesterton Pitter (born 2000) has an incandescent tonal language, incorporating very personal chords with a strong melodic sense and rhythms from all over the world. The composer primarily uses the traditional instruments from classical music, but the outcome is unique and different, with light and darkness combined, along with beauty, happiness, sorrow and joy. The music is inspired by nature, weather, spirit, being, life - and the unspeakable.


Pitter has composed music since the age of 10, and was at the age of 22 accepted as a member of the Danish Composers’ Society. He studied with Danish composer Peter Schmidt Bruun since the age of 11, and has a Graduate Diploma from The Film Scoring Academy of Europe from 2021. He has participated in a number of masterclasses with established composers. Otherwise, he is mostly self-taught, for instance by arranging workshops with skilled musicians in order to work with his music.


In 2025, he was awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Award for composers. 


He has composed works for all sizes of ensembles, from solo instruments to symphony orchestras, some of which has been performed or recorded for video presentation.


Jonathan Mesterton Pitter was born with musical synesthesia, giving him special compositional abilities. He was also born severely physically disabled, preventing him from playing any musical instrument or physically using a computer. Instead, he dictates all his music, which is then written into the score on the computer on the fly.


                                     


"This is probably some of the most unique music I have ever played in my life. And I have played a lot." 


 Maria Boelskov Sørensen, harpist (from interview with Danish Radio P2 Classic). 

"Jonathan Mesterton Pitter is an exeptional blossom in the Danish muscal flora. His music possesses a remarkably bright tone, with most of its musical drama and variation emanating from gestures, rarely abandoning its radiant, positive resonance. This is truly outstanding in Danish musical life. It is not that the music lacks drama and variation, but it takes place in the light. 


 Thomas Agerfeldt-Olesen, composer