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Richard Nunemaker has been clarinetist, bass clarinetist, and saxophonist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra since 1967. In addition, Nunemaker is very active in both jazz and new music. He is a member and president of Houston Composers' Alliance (Music by Living American/Houston Composers).
As soloist 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 and Toshiyuki Shimada. Richard Nunemaker has also recorded with the Houston Symphony Orchestra as soloist in tributes to Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, Newton Wayland, conducting. Dick has also appeared in live Houston Symphony Orchestra television broadcasts as soloist with Newton Wayland, Sergiu Comissiona and David Allen Miller, conductors.
Nunemaker has just finished recording a solo CD, Multiplicities for Red Mark Records (CD 9213). Like his first solo CD Golden Petals (MMC 2005) Multiplicities features music commissioned by Richard Nunemaker that demonstrates his remarkable skill for performing new American music. This recording and Nunemaker's collaboration with composers Jody Rockmaker, David Colson, John Anthony Lennon, Richard Lavenda and Houston Composers' Alliance (Music by Living American/Houston Composers) exemplify the high caliber and diversity of American music today. Dick has begun work on a new CD project Magical Place of My Dreams. This CD will present Nunemaker along with Chicago clarinetist Christie Vohs in commissioned music for two clarinets, two bass clarinets, and clarinet and bass clarinet. Dick has recorded another work he has commissioned, Nancy Bloomer Duessen's Clarinet Concerto with the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra for the ERM Label.
Richard Nunemaker is a founding member of Airmail Special, a quartet of Houston Symphony musicians that performs an average of twenty concerts annually of original material for student and family concerts in the Houston area.
Richard Nunemaker has written and published Scale and Chord Studies, a study book for all instrumentalists.
Following the 1993 release of the CD, Golden Petals (MMC 2005), he toured Austria with bassist Peter Herbert and the Camerata Bregenz in 1994 and was featured that same year in the New and Improvised Music Concert with composer, William Thomas McKinley at Carnegie Hall. Richard Nunemaker has recorded for New World Records, Pro Arte, ERM Records, MMC Recordings, Ltd. and Red Mark Records.
Richard Nunemaker is married to Lynda. They have two adult children and make their home in Houston, TX.
