After a further year of study with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam the Sweelinck Conservatoire awarded him his Performer’s Diploma. In 1982 he won first prize at the Edinburgh International Harpsichord Competition having been a finalist in the 1980 Bruges International Harpsichord Competition

In 1994 he toured California with the American viola da gamba player John Dornenburg and performed Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto with the Chandos Baroque Players in Pasadena and throughout Canada. In 1997 he again toured and recorded with Dornenburg and took part in the Cambridge Society for Early Music series of concerts in the Boston area with the Swiss baroque violinist Maya Homburger. In 2001 he toured Japan as a continuo player with the Purcell Quartet’s production of Monteverdi’s ‘Orfeo’ with Mark Padmore in the leading role.

He has performed C.P.E. Bach concertos and recorded Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto (Virgin Label) with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In 2000 he again played continuo in John Eliot Gardiner’s and the English Baroque Soloists ‘Bach Cantata Pilgrimage’ and was a soloist with that ensemble in Bach’s concerto for harpsichord, flute and violin in Zurich that same year. Other concerto appearances have been with the E.U. Baroque Orchestra in Bremen and the Gabrieli Consort at La Chaise Dieu, France.

Malcolm Proud is a member of the period instrument ensembles Convivium and Camerata Kilkenny and has performed with soloists Gustav Leonhardt, Marcel Ponseele, Wilbert Hazelzet, Maya Homburger, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Isabelle Poulenard, John Elwes, Michael George, Monica Huggett, Steven Isserlis, Sarah Cunningham, Lisa Beznosiuk, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Rachel Brown, Julia Dickson, John Dornenburg, and Richard Tunnicliffe.

He has given organ recitals in Dublin, Cambridge, Antwerp, Limburg-an-Lahn, Basel, Vienna, Copenhagen, Gent, Aveiro (Portugal) and on the historic organs of Valere-Sion (Switzerland), Ottobeuren near Munich and Udine (Italy).

His CD recordings include Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bach’s sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, (Meridian) Marin Marais’ ‘Pieces de Violes (Centaur) and Handel’s Italian solo cantatas and instrumental works with John Dornenburg and Julianne Baird (Meridian), Allessandro Scarlatti cantatas with Nancy Argenta and the Chandos Baroque Players (EMI), Zelenka Lamentations with Michael Chance, Michael George, John Mark Ainsley and the Chandos Baroque Players (Hyperion), Vivaldi’s La Pastorella with the Chandos Baroque Players, Bach’s violin and harpsichord sonatas with Maya Homburger (Maya), Bach’s Goldberg Variations (Maya), Purcell’s harpsichord music (Meridian), Hasse’s cantatas, ballads and sonatas with Julianne Baird, Nancy Hadden and Erin Headley (CRD), and solo harpsichord works by Bach, Byrd, Couperin and Froberger (Claddagh).