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Jack Briece was a composer, organist and pianist, video artist, educator, and author, whose creative output was original and inventive.

Born in Oklahoma City, January 28, 1945, Briece attended Kansas State College of Pittsburg in Pittsburg, Kansas where he earned his Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance in 1967, and his Master of Music in Composition and Theory in 1970. He also studied at Fontainbleau with Nadia Boulanger in the summer of 1966, and at the New England Conservatory in the Master of Music program in composition during the 1966-67 academic year. Jack Briece designed the music program for the Escuela Americana in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he taught from 1967-69. In 1970-71 he was organist and music theory instructor at Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College in Texas. In 1973 he co-founded the MusicMusic Corporation with the mission of promoting new music composition and performance. The organization developed an international music exchange program with Mexico, Brazil, and England, in which Briece was active. In 1973-74 he began experimenting with the newly developing videotape medium. Throughout the seventies he produced several concerts and concert series such as Les Salons Vides and Nanny Goat Hill. His own instrumental music has also been performed in Central America, Europe, and the United States and at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas (1973), the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin in Mexico City (1977), and the Santa Fe Festival of the Arts (1983). His music has been published in Soundings and Ear magazines. He was also a member of the American Composers Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to American classical music, and publisher of American composers. Also of great importance to Briece's life and works was his ongoing study of astrology, planetary movements, and the I-Ching. Jack Briece died of AIDS in Aptos, California at the age of 43 on March 26, 1988.

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