"The Secret Noise" won the 2015 Art Music Award for Instrumental Work of the Year. Ricketson's string quartet "So We Begin Afresh" (for the Grainger Quartet) received the NSW State Award for the Best Composition by an Australian Composer at the 2008 AMC/APRA Classical Music Awards. He also received the international Lady Panufnik Prize (Poland) for "Chinese Whisper", and was selected by ABC Classic FM to represent Australian music at the Paris International Rostrum with his work "Lamina". Ricketson's "Ptolemy's Onion" received the Marienberg Spring Award for an Outstanding Australian Composition and was subsequently chosen for the Gaudeamus International Music Week. In 2016, his works were featured in a profile concert as part of the Australian Voices series presented by ANAM and the Melbourne Recital Centre.