Rhode Island Recording Ensemble is happy to announce our new Recording Project, RIRE Fanfares. These will be videos premiering multi-trumpet compositions created by our past Rhode Island Recording Ensemble composers. They will be performed, recorded, and edited by our RIRE Trumpeter Brandon Dicks, who is a current youtuber who specializes in Multi-track Trumpet Videos (Click to view Youtube) . We are very excited to start this project and to promote our composers in a time where they are not able live performances of their pieces. Stay tuned for a new video in this series every month.

Allometrics
Zach Friedland

Zach Friedland’s Allometrics is an energetic five minute fanfare that introgrates rhythms that morph and transform as the composition evolves. It is a lovely composition that challenges trumpeters not only with the demands of playing the parts, but also the performers knowledge of rhythmic construction and accuracy.

Fanfare in a Blue Pilu
Jason Taurins

Fanfare in a Blue Pilu was inspired by Jason’s love of the music of Jimi Hendrix (specifically, the Hendrix Chord) and the postminimal fanfares of John Adams. The title refers to the scale used, the raga Pilu, although it was derived the scale from the opening harmonic idea: the Fdim/F7 polychord which sounds quite bluesy.

Fall Fanfare
Nick Jackson

Nick Jackson wrote an awesome Trumpet Sextet that is both elegant in style and technically demanding in terms of motivic construction. The piece has a clear theme that is represented throughout the work, but hockets the theme to many different voices. It has a lively energy that can be enjoyed by many different people.

Fanfare for a New Generation
Brandon Dicks

Brandon Dicks starts off this series with "Fanfare for a New Generation”. To write this piece, he added a new trumpet part to the composition every day until there were 27 different parts! The pieces starts off with very precise and accurate rhythmic format. The more parts that are added, the sound becomes more and more out of control to the point where the melody is faded to the background.