RORY BRICCA
COMPOSER
Compositions
ORCHESTRA
Upcoming performance by the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, conducted by Ken Lam, in Soloists of Tomorrow concert (July 2025), as winner of the 2025 Brevard Performance Prize.
Premiered by the Boston Pops Orchestra, conducted by Keith Lockhart, in Music of the Cosmos concerts, with audiences totaling over 3,500 (2025).
Reading sessions with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra (2024) and Yale Symphony Orchestra (2025).
3d1,3d1,3d1,3d1 - 4,3,3,1 - perc (timp+3) - hp - pno - str
SALEM (5')
Premiered by the Tucson Unified School District Faculty Orchestra, conducted by Rory Bricca, at annual Superintendent's Concert (2025).
Reading session with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra canceled due to Covid (2020).
Standard instrumentation: 2d1,2,2,2d1 - 4,2,2,1 - perc (timp+2) - hp - pno - str
Special instrumentation: picc; fl; cl 1,2, sax (AATB) - hn 1,2; tpt 1,2; tbn 1,2,bass; tba - perc (timp+2) - pno - hp - str
FLOW (7')
Reading session with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, conducted by José Luis Gomez (2022).
3d1,3d1,3d1,3d1 - 4,2,3,1, perc (timp+2), hp, pno, str
A SINGLE STEP (6')
Reading session with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, conducted by José Luis Gomez (2019).
2,2,2,2 - 4,2,2,1 - perc (timp+2) - hp - pno - str
LANDFALL (4.5')
Premiered by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, conducted by José Luis Gomez, in their Young People’s Concerts and Free Concert, with audiences totaling over 8,000 (2019).
Reading session with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra (2018).
2d1,2,2,2 - 4,2,2,1 - perc (timp+2) - hp - pno - str
WIND ENSEMBLE
DUPLICITY (7')
Premiered by the Yale Concert Band, conducted by Thomas C. Duffy (2023).
picc; fl 1,2; ob; bsn; cl 1,2,3,bass; sax (AATB) - hn 1,2,3,4; tpt 1,2,3; tbn 1,2,bass; euph; tba - string bass - pno - perc (timp+4)
CHAMBER
GROOVE PSYCHOSIS for violin, viola, bassoon, 2 pianos (3.5')
Premiered at the Bowdoin International Music Festival (July 2025).
Possible rearrangement for piano quartet.
TEMPORAL PAINT (FOUR MOONS) for violin, cello, piano, percussion (6')
Premiered at the Bowdoin International Music Festival (July 2025).
Based on Ann Craven | Temporal Paint: Moons (Laboratory) at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
To be revised/rearranged for Pierrot ensemble.
HIPPOCAMPUS for flute, clarinet, violin, cello (6')
Reading session with Hub New Music (July 2025).
Previously: SIX CENTS for saxophone quartet, premiered at the Brevard Music Center New Music Concerts (2024).
HYPNOMORPHOSIS for piano quartet (6.5')
Premiered at the Bowdoin International Music Festival (July 2025).
DANCE OF DECEIT for saxophone quartet (6')
Rearrangement of DUPLICITY for wind ensemble.
TUNNEL VISION for saxophone quartet (5')
Premiered at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (May 2025).
Commissioned by Portail du Son, coached by Stacia Howard. Originally for SAATB saxophone quintet.
ALONG THE GARDEN PATH for flute, oboe, clarinet (4')
Premiered by members of the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra (2023).
Responding to Claude Monet's The Artist's Garden in Giverny at the Yale University Art Gallery.
MIXO for 10-person chamber ensemble (6')
Premiered virtually by members of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra (2021).
fl, ob, tpt, tbn, 2 perc, pno, vln, vla, vlc
SUPERNATURAL TRANSFORMATION for brass quintet (2.5')
Reading session with Monsoon Brass (2019).
ROUGH SEAS for horn quartet (1.5')
Performed by the Johanna Lundy horn studio (2019).
Reading session with members of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra (2019).
RUN, RUN AWAY for horn quartet (2')
Reading session with members of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra (2017).
THE MIGHTY WORLD AROUND US for string quintet (3.5')
Reading session with members of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra (2017).
SOLO
DAYBREAK for B flat clarinet (4')
Performed by Katia Waxman at the Bowdoin International Music Festival (July 2025).
Commissioned by Jalen Li (2023).
AUTO-CONTRAPUNCTUS NO. 1 for French horn and looper device (2.5')
Premiered by Daniel Halstead at the Bowdoin International Music Festival (July 2025).
DOUBLE FUGUE IN C MINOR for piano (4')
For Arts of Fugue final project, on a given first subject (2023).
FLUORINE for timpani (2')
(2020)
AQUARIUM PEBBLES for marimba (2')
(2020)
VOCAL
SINGING BIRD for tenor and piano (2.5')
Premiered at the Brevard Music Center New Songs Concert (2024).
Text from A Birthday by Christina Rossetti.
NOT YET COMPLETED
In Progress
- A revision of Temporal Paint (Four Moons), rearranged for Pierrot ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion).
- An arrangement of Duplicity for saxophone quartet.
- Assembly/Ascension: A 6-8 minute piece for the Now Ensemble (flute, clarinet, piano, electric guitar, contrabass).
- Toccata Metrica: A 2-4 minute virtuosic piano etude experimenting with complex mixed meter, polyrhythms, and metric modulations.
Future Plans/Interests
- A ~20-40 minute senior thesis composition combining improvising musicians from seemingly opposing styles, including potentially jazz, early music continuo, Romantic classical, and extended technique-based contemporary music.
- A short piece for solo French horn and live electronics, with animations by Jaiden Blais-Ellis.
- A saxophone sonata for Lizzie Seward.
- A solo piccolo piece for Alexis Houchin.
- Middle and/or high school level band music.
- More Auto-Contrapuncti.