LEMISA Composition Debuts · Meet the composers
Reece Rivalland
South African composer
Featured composition
The Jester in the Temple
Brass Quintet
Composer · Trumpeter · Educator
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Education
BMus Trumpet Performance · Nelson Mandela University
About the composer
Reece Rivalland (b. 1999) is a performer, educator and composer from Port Elizabeth. He holds a Bachelor's degree in trumpet performance from Nelson Mandela University, studying with Professor Erik Albertyn.
His composition output includes works for orchestra, chamber orchestra and other various chamber music groups, as well as, most notably, "Mikromorphosis", a work for wind band that received a 2024 performance in Potsdam, Germany, marking his first step onto the international stage. He has been an active member of the South African composition community since the first Symposium of South African Composers in 2023, where he was a finalist in the Compositions for Strings category.
His new work for Brass Quintet seeks to elevate the repertoire for such an ensemble towards the standards found in other historically more established ensembles, such as string quartets and wind quintets.