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Listen to the Labor Day 2007 KUHF Interview Coming Events:Please check back for details on coming events! Thank you! Richard's Latest CD
The Louisville Project Richard Nunemaker's newest release, The Louisville Project is another joint release with Houston's super pianist / composer / producer Paul English 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 features the music of M. William Karlins, Jody Rockmaker, Marc Satterwhite and Meira Warshauer. You can order this CD now at the AUR website. |
Welcome Born in Buffalo, New York Nunemaker’s career has run the gamut from managing his own dance bands in high school, to being in the pit for New York road show productions such as West Side Story, My Fair Lady and South Pacific as well as being a featured soloist both in recital and with symphony orchestras around the country. A strong advocate of music by living American composers, Nunemaker has commissioned over fifty works for clarinet and saxophone. As a record producer he has produced and recorded five solo CDs featuring this music. He has been a featured soloist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and on numerous occasions has appeared with the orchestra in live television and radio broadcasts. Nunemaker has recorded two CDs with the Houston Symphony Orchestra featuring the music of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. He has published four books, Scale and Chord Studies, If The Shoe Fits, The Effortless Clarinet and The Effortless Saxophone. Nunemaker has been an artist/teacher for the Las Vegas Music Festival and The Sewanee Summer Music Center. At present he is a member of the faculty for the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Houston Community College and keeps an active private studio. Richard Nunemaker is president of The Houston Composers Alliance, Music by Living American/Houston Composers.
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Links of InterestFeatured Images:Please click on image below to view it in full size. Thank you.
Eighth Annual To Play is To Blow...To Blow is To Play Clarinet/Saxophone Recital
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Richard Nunemaker has had a varied and prolific career as a
symphony musician, concert soloist, recording artist, producer, educator and
author. Nunemaker played clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone with the
Houston Symphony Orchestra from 1967-2008. He was also a member of
the Chicago Civic Orchestra in 1966, the Louisville Orchestra from 1964-
1966 and the Erie Philharmonic from 1962-1964.
