Composer | Jonathan Pease

Jonathan is prolific composer, whose fascination with the relationship

between text and music has fuelled specialisms in opera and church music.

To enquire about purchase or performance, please contact Jonathan via this website. Links to scores are available below, where possible.

Opera

These Things Happen (2012)
Opera about failed relationships for soloists and pit-style orchestra

The Calling (2013)
Chamber opera; finalist in ENO "Mini Operas" competition

Concrete Music (2015, revised 2019)
Opera about the career and suicide of a 1960s architect for soloists and chamber orchestra

Children's opera for children's choir and mixed sextet,

based on the Book of Acts

Marginalised Groups (2018, revised 2024)
Chamber opera about political and cultural division

for two soloists, bassoon and piano, commissioned by Teatime Opera

Sacred/liturgical choral

Whither I go, ye cannot come (2017)
Maundy Thursday anthem for ATB choir and bass clarinet

Preces and Responses (2017)
First performed at St. Martin in the Fields

Mass of Preparation (2017)
Congregational Mass setting for Advent and Lent

Twelve Anthems (2019)
for double choir and organ

Song of Zechariah (2019)
for upper voices and organ

Missa Navalium Londiniensium (2020)
Choral Mass setting for unaccompanied choir

Communion Service in B minor "St. John's Service" (2021)
Choral BCP Communion setting for choir, trumpet and organ

Secular choral

Songs of Winter and Isolation (2020)
Covid-19-inspired song cycle for choir, French horn and piano

A Fair Field (2023)
Cantata for choir and wind orchestra about the Bow Matchgirls' Strike,
commissioned by the East London Music Group

commissioned by the London Docklands Singers

Chamber

Westbourne Nocturne (2019)
for cor anglais and piano