FEATURED ARTIST RICHARD NUNEMAKER
Arizona University Recordings is pleased to present Richard Nunemaker as one of our featured artists. Richard Nunemaker currently has four releases with AUR and appears on "Reflections On the Hudson".
Upcoming concerts and events:
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007, 3:00 PM
Cypress Creek Foundation for The Arts and Community Enrichment
At The Centrum
6823 Cypresswood Dr. Spring, TX 77379-7705
For tickets, contact the Box Office at 281-440-4850.
Paul English is well-known to Texas audiences as an outstanding jazz pianist who has performed and recorded with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Arnett Cobb, David Liebman, Fathead Newman, Will Kennedy and John Patitucci. This afternoon concert will feature compositions written by Paul English, including: Sonata for clarinet and piano (2007 world premier); Able to Bark (2006 - for Bella Bartok) for clarinet, violin and piano; three songs from Wrestling with my God (1996, text by Gerald Manley Hopkins); Love Preparing to Fly, Heaven-Haven, and Spring and Fall. Joining Paul for this performance are Ferenc Illenyi, violin; Tony Kitai, cello; James Metcalfe, percussion; Richard Nunemaker, clarinet/bass clarinet; and Tianna Hall, soprano.
On Tuesday, April 24. 2007, 7:30 PM at The University of St. Thomas, Cullen Auditorium, Houston Texas in a concert of musicby Houston Composer Reynaldo Ochoa, Richard Nunemaker will be performing Ochoa’s Pensamientos Perfumados (ScentedThoughts) for Clarinet and Two Percussionists. Also on the program will be Louie's Key West for solo piano, Songs of Solomonfor soprano voice, piano, electric bass and drum set and Elegy (forthe Fallen in Iraq) for narrator and two cellos.
Biography:
Richard Nunemaker has been clarinetist, bass clarinetist, and saxophonist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra since 1967. As saxophone and clarinet soloist with the Houston Symphony Nunemaker has given the Houston Symphony premieres of works by Ingolf Dahl, Pierre Max Dubois, Alexander Glazunov and Heiter Villa-Lobos. He has appeared as soloist with such conductors as Lawrence Foster, Jorge Mester, Sergiu Comissiona, William Harwood, Toshiyuki Shimada, Stephen Stein, David Allen Miller, Thomas Wilkins and Mariusz Smolij. Richard Nunemaker has also recorded with the Houston Symphony Orchestra as soloist in tributes to Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw with Newton Wayland, conducting. He has appeared in live Houston Symphony Orchestra television broadcasts as soloist with Newton Wayland, Sergiu Comissiona and David Allen Miller, conductors.
In addition to being a member of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Richard Nunemaker is also past president and music director of the Houston Composers Alliance (HCA). HCA presents and commissions new works for several annual concerts in the Houston area. Richard Nunemaker is an artist in residence and master teacher for the Las Vegas Music Festival. Richard Nunemaker is a founding member of Airmail Special, a quartet of Houston musicians that performed original material for student and family concerts in the Houston area. During its 16-year existence, Airmail Special presented approximately 350 live performances in the Greater Houston area schools for approximately 70,000 children. Following the 1993 release of Nunemaker’s solo CD, Golden Petals (MMC 2005), he toured Austria (as soloist) with bassist Peter Herbert and the Camerata Bregenz. In 1994 he was featured in the New and Improvised Music Concert with composer William Thomas McKinley at Carnegie Hall.
Richard Nunemaker is presently working on his fifth solo CD, The Louisville Project, scheduled for release in 2006. Like his previous CDs, The Louisville Project is music that Richard Nunemaker has commissioned for clarinet and bass clarinet. Nunemaker has also published The Effortless Clarinet, Richard Nunemaker’s Clarinet Principles.
Richard Nunemaker is a graduate from the State University of New York at Fredonia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education (1964) and was awarded a Performer’s Certificate in Clarinet. Nunemaker also graduated from the University of Louisville (1966) with a Master of Music degree in clarinet. In 2002 Richard Nunemaker was honored as an outstanding alumnus from the University of Louisville and presented with the permanent title of Alumni Fellow. Richard Nunemaker has commissioned over 20 composers for more than 50 original works or arrangements. Richard Nunemaker has studied with Allen Sigel, William Willet, Clark Brody, Jerome Stowell and James Livingston.
Recordings by Richard Nunemaker:
THE LOUSIVILLE PROJECT, Arizona University Recordings
BETWEEN SILENCE AND DARKNESS, Arizona University Recordings,
LLC, AUR CS3119
MAGICAL PLACE OF MY DREAMS, Arizona University Recordings, LLC, AUR CD 3118
MULTIPLICITIES, Red Mark CD 9213
GOLDEN PETALS, MMC 2005
FROM THE GREAT LAND, with Suzanne Summerville, Mezzo Soprano
Arts Venture, University of Alaska
LOGO I, New World Records 80382-2
AMERICA SWINGS, Pro Arte Records CDP 4351
STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY, Pro Arte Records CDP 420
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"The Louisville Project "
The Louisville Project is music that was commissioned by Richard Nunemaker and premiered by Nunemaker in performances in Louisville, Kentucky and Chicago, Illinois with the composers present. This CD was recorded in Louisville, Kentucky immediately following performance on the campus of the University of Louisville and is another example of new music by some of America’s finest composers.
$16.95 (includes free shipping in the US)
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"Between Silence and Darkness"
Richard Nunemaker, saxophonist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra teams up with super bassist Bill Black of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, and Houston Symphony Orchestra pianist Scott Holshouser to perform an engaging repertoire of exciting new music for saxophone and double bass, with a special blend of Latino, Jazz, and Classical overtones "?QUE?" by Reynaldo Ochoa, "Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Double Bass" by Robert Nelson, and "Between Silence and Darkness" by 2002 Emmy Award Composer Lynette Westendorf," as well as an original and unique interpretation of John Harbison's "San Antonio" for saxophone and piano. This is a CD produced by world class and original thinking 21st century musicians -- a MUST for your CD library!
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"Magical Place of My Dreams"
Clarinetist Richard Nunemaker of the Houston Symphony Orchestra performs the music of Steve Reich (produced by Paul English), John Eaton, Jody Rockmaker, Ray Dillard, Janice Misurell-Mitchell and Daniel Kramlich. Music for various clarinets and various instruments.
AUR CD 3118
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"Multiplicities"
Richard Nunemaker performs the music of Jody Rockmaker (solo clarinet), David Colson (clarinet, piano and percussion), John Anthony Lennon (clarinet and piano) and Richard Lavenda (clarinet and the T’ang String Quartet).
"...Nunemaker is particularly stellar. He displays effortless control of the many 20th Century techniques required by these compositions while still maintaining beauty of tone and natural ease of expression." "...a presentation of four excellent pieces of contemporary clarinet music which deserve to be heard and performed often." -- The Clarinet, September 1999
Nunemaker: "Vibrant and alive"...(Nunemaker's) musicianship quite alive and daring" -- The New Music Connoisseur, Spring 1999
AUR CD 6015
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"Reflections on the Hudson"
by Nancy Bloomer Deussen Orchestral
AUR CD 3108
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