Pierce was the director of music for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His compositions were used as the underpinning of the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the daily medals presentations. Pierce produced the CD "Sounds of Vancouver 2010: Opening Ceremony Commemorative Album" which sold Gold, he also produced "Sounds of Vancouver 2010: Closing Ceremony Commemorative Album". Each CD features artists from the ceremonies including Bryan Adams, Nelly Furtado, k-os, Michael Bublé, Sarah McLachlan, Nickelback, Alanis Morissette, Donald Sutherland, Garou, and opera singers Measha Brueggergosman and Ben Heppner. One pre-recorded segment featuring a performance of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" was conducted in the studio by ballet maestro Earl Stafford, otherwise Pierce conducted all of the recording orchestras as well as the opening ceremony live on-stage orchestra (known as the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Orchestra, per the album). Pierce utilized a unique approach to producing the recordings for the Games which employed over 300 musicians and provided a cross-genre score that included Canadian indigenous musicians, symphonic instrumentalists and players from the worlds of jazz, punk, rock, R&amp;B, folk and country.