Coming Events:

Announcement:

Richard Nunemaker To Retire From
Houston Symphony Orchestra

After serving forty-one years as a member of the Houston Symphony Orchestra Richard Nunemaker will retire August 1, 2008. Read More

Richard's Latest CD

The Louisville Project
"Nunemaker's bass clarinet playing here is simply breathtaking...we heartily recommend this CD."
- New Music Connoisseur

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

Hired by Andre Previn and the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1967 as clarinetist, bass clarinetist and saxophonist Richard Nunemaker continues to be a member of the Houston Symphony and along with his wife Lynda calls Houston his home. Richard has had a varied and prolific career as a symphony musician, concert soloist, recording artist, producer, educator and author. Born in Buffalo, New York Richard’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 to 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 new works for clarinet and saxophone and as a record producer has produced and recorded five solo CDs featuring this music. Richard 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 Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. Richard has performed with such diverse entertainers as Debbie Reynolds, Milton Berle and Nat King Cole and with composer/conductors Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. Nunemaker has published three books, Scale and Chord Studies, If The Shoe Fits and The Effortless Clarinet.

CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Ganz Hall, 7th floor, Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Richard Nunemaker will be taking part in CUBE's Groovin’ High, Groovin’ Low grand finale concert of its 20th anniversary season. Taking a cue from the jazz tune “Groovin’ High,” CUBE will feature voices, flutes and bass clarinets in a concert that combines classical contemporary music and jazz in new and intriguing ways.

The concert features a new work written expressly for this concert: Bottom Dog, for two bass clarinets and one contrabass clarinet by Jody Rockmaker, professor of music at Arizona State University. Featured along with Nunemaker in this work will be bass clarinetist, J. Lawrie Bloom and contrabass clarinetist, John Bruce Yeh, both members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The 5th Annual To Play is To Blow...To Blow is To Play...
Clarinet and Saxophone Summer Mini-Camp and Recital
June 12th-June 15th

Featuring, students of Richard Nunemaker. Also featured on this concert will be a world premiere composition by Houston's Paul English for the To Play is to Blow...To Blow is To Play...ensemble. Performance, June 15th, 2:30 PM, Cullen Hall, University of St. Thomas, 4001 Mt. Vernon, Houston, TX 77006. Free admission.