RORY BRICCA
COMPOSER
Compositions
ORCHESTRA
Performed by the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, conducted by Ken Lam, in Soloists of Tomorrow concert, as winner of the 2025 Brevard Performance Prize (July 2025).
Premiered by the Boston Pops Orchestra, conducted by Keith Lockhart, in Music of the Cosmos concerts, with audiences totaling over 3,500 (May 2025).
Reading sessions with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra (2024) and Yale Symphony Orchestra (Feb. 2025).
3d1,3d1,3d1,3d1 - 4,3,3,1 - perc (timp+3) - hp - pno - str - projectionist
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
Premiered by the Yale Concert Band, conducted by Thomas C. Duffy (Feb. 2026).
picc; fl 1,2; ob 1,2; eng hn; cl 1,2,3,bass; bsn 1,2,contr; sax (AATB) - hn 1,2,3,4; tpt 1,2,3; tbn 1,2,bass; euph; tba - perc (timp+3); pno; harp - projectionist
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 SAXOPHONE
TUNNEL VISION for sax quartet or SAATB quintet (5')
Published by Murphy Music Press
Performed at the Interlochen Arts Camp, coached by Timothy McAllister (July 2025)
Premiered at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (May 2025).
Commissioned by Portail du Son, coached by Stacia Howard.
HIPPOCAMPUS for sax quartet (6')
To be published by Murphy Music Press
Premiered at the Brevard Music Center New Music Concerts (2024).
DUPLICITY for sax quartet (6')
Rearrangement of the piece for wind ensemble.
CHAMBER
A MNEMO-META-MUSICAL OFFERING for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano (6')
Premiered at the Norfolk New Music Workshop, conducted by Lisa Moore (July 2026)
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).
HYPNOMORPHOSIS for piano quartet (6.5')
Premiered at the Bowdoin International Music Festival (July 2025).
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
GATES PASS for piano (4.5')
Commissioned by the Arizona State Music Teachers Association for their 96th Conference (May 2026)
CHARIOT GALLOP for piano (3')
Based on the African American spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2026)
DAYBREAK for B flat clarinet or alto saxophone (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')
(2023).
FLUORINE for timpani (2')
(2020)
AQUARIUM PEBBLES for marimba (2')
(2020)
CHORAL & VOCAL
A SIMPLE PHRASE for SATB choir (2.5')
Winner of the 2025 Yale Glee Club Fenno Heath Award (Nov. 2025)
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.