RECENT & FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCES
2025
Phantasticke Spirites (premiere)
Oxford University Press Choir 40th anniversary commission
Saturday 7th June. OUP Choir and Ensemble, cond. Ben Goodall
2024
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
All Saints, Leighton Buzzard, Sunday 28th April; The Charterhouse Chapel, Clerkenwell, Tuesday 30th April. City Chamber Choir, dir. Stephen Jones
2019
Two Short Pieces for Organ
Cortége: In Memoriam
Caprice: Gavotte and Valse
St John the Baptist Church, Stadhampton, Oxon, 6.30 Sunday 27th November
2018
A Wreathèd Garland–four songs of George Herbert (premiere) Francesca Saracino (mezzo soprano) & Oxford Sinfonia
St Barnabas Church, Oxford, 7.30pm Saturday 10th November
2017
Terpsichoreana City Chamber Choir & Chameleon Brass cond. Stephen Jones
St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, 7.30pm Tuesday 16th May
PUBLISHED COMPOSITIONS
An Oxfordshire Organ Book:
Fifteen original pieces by ODOA
members and associated composers
including: Aubade—Ubi Aves Ibi Angeli
Published by Oxford and District Organists’ Association
Winter Notebook
Recorders (single player) and Organ
Christopher Britton (recorders), Malcolm Pearce (organ)
1.Lamento (tenor)
2.Scherzetto (sopranino)
3.Aria (treble)
4.Giga (descant)
The Childrey Service
http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Malcolm_Pearce
Preces & Responses, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis for a cappella TTBB
Terpsichoreana (Five Dance Scenes)
1.Pavane and Galliard: Mediaeval Procession
2.Tarantella: Tarantula!
3.Gavotte and Foxtrot: English country house party, 1920s
4.Valse Antique: Figures on an ancient vase
5.Samba–Salsa: Dances of the sun and moon
Words by Nia Williams. Choir (SATB), brass quintet & percussion
“… a splendid and highly original piece of work. … The score is laid out very well. I hadn’t heard of Hop Vine. They deserve recognition.” Gwyn Arch (dir. Reading Male Voice Choir)
“… very rewarding to do and the choir enjoyed it immensely!” Michael Smedley (cond. Oxford Pro Musica Singers)
“It was such a pleasure to perform your music—so idiomatic. Many thanks for your music, Malcolm” Stephen Jones (cond. City Chamber Choir)
Nova, Nova!
Six carols on mediaeval texts. Choir (SATB, unaccompanied)
“… well-crafted, tuneful and individual and are totally rewarding to perform … Malcolm Pearce really knows how to set a text!” Janet Lincé, Musical Director of Choros
All extracts–Oxford Singers, cond. David Crown
1. Nova! Nova!
2. Sweet was the Song
3. Out of your Sleep
4. Balulalow
5. There is no rose
6. A New Year’s Carol
Drop down ye heavens from above
Advent prose. Choir (SATB) & organ
“An absolutely wonderful piece … A great success with our choir and congregation” Christian Rutherford, director of music at ‘Little’ St Mary’s Church, Cambridge
Jubilate
Psalm 100. Choir (SATB) & organ
Wassail!
NEW EDITION 2023
Christmas cantata. Baritone solo, choir (SATB) & brass quintet
1. Nowell
2.Twelve of the clock
3.Wassail!
Songsters
Poems by Stevie Smith. Cantata for female voices (SSAA unaccompanied)
1. The Songster (Bulmershe Girls Choir, cond. Gwyn Arch)
2. The bereaved swan (City of Oxford Choir, cond. Malcolm Pearce)
3. My Cats (Bulmershe Girls Choir, cond. Gwyn Arch)
4. Pad, pad (Oxford Singers, cond. David Crown)
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Traditional carol, arr. for choir (SATB) & organ
Oxford University Press
Utah Baroque Ensemble, Martha Sergent (cond.), Jerri Bearce (organ)
Also: version for female voices in ‘For Him All Stars’
Sundry Sketches
Four character pieces for flute, oboe & piano
1.Aubade
2. May-Dance
3.Elegy
4.Caprice
“…refreshing individuality and assured craftsmanship, with the emphasis securely on melodic invention.” Richard Stagg, (British Flute Society Journal)
Bassoonova
Bassoon & piano
Junior ragtime
Bass clarinet (or bassoon) & piano
always it’s Spring
Camden Music (distributed by Spartan Press music publishers)
Poems by e.e.cummings. Choir (SATB) & brass quintet
BBC Northern Singers & English Brass Ensemble, cond. Stephen Wilkinson
1. Who knows if the moon’s a balloon?
2. Maggie and Millie and Molly and May
3. These children singing in stone
4. Your time is my time
5. I thank you God
Madrigals on the river
Camden Music (distributed by Spartan Press music publishers)
Words by Maida Stainer. Partsong (SATB)
London Contemporary Voices, cond. Andrew Skirrow