Patrick Nunn

Biography

Patrick Nunn (born 21 July 1969 in Tunbridge Wells, England), is a British composer and educator.

Biography

Nunn read music at Dartington College of Arts studying under Frank Denyer between 1988 and 1991 taking additional tuition with Louis Andriessen at Dartington International Summer School and with Gary Carpenter at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. In 2004, he took his doctorate under Professor Simon Bainbridge at the Royal Academy of Music. He also received tuition under Jonathan Harvey, Tod Machover and Simon Emmerson.
In 1994, Nunn was awarded the Gregynog Composition Prize for Colour Cycle and in 1995, the BBC Radio 3 Composing for Children prize as part of the BBC's Fairest Isle festival for his work Songs of our Generation. His work Into My Burning Veins a Poison for quarter-tone alto flute, piano and electronics was awarded the RCM rarescale Composition Prize in 2004. In 2006, he was awarded a British Composers Award in the solo/duet category for Mercurial Sparks, Volatile Shadows and the Alan Bush Prize for Transilient Fragments in 2008. His proposal for Sentiment of an Invisible Omniscience was awarded the 2010 Millennium Prize from the Birmingham Conservatoire.
He taught techniques of composition and electroacoustics at the Royal Academy of Music between 2009 and 2019. His compositional work is currently published by Cadenza Music (Wise Music), Composers Edition and the ABRSM. In 2013, Nunn was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM).

Selected Compositions

Lullaby, (1987, Rev.1998) for children's choir (ss) and piano
Sonata, 1990 for flute and piano
Polychrome Musique (1991) for large ensemble
Colour Cycle (1994 rev. 2015) for violin and piano
Merry Go Round (1994) for large ensemble
Songs of our Generation (1995) for children's choir and orchestra
Man Made (1995) for large amplified ensemble
Bakers Dozen (1995) for flute and guitar
Rents (1996) for counter tenor and guitar (electric/acoustic)
Screw (1996) for large amplified ensemble
Down In the Underpass (1998) for children's choir and small ensemble
Raw Fuse (1998) for large amplified ensemble
Cruise (1998 rev. 2007) for small ensemble
Un Chant D'amour (1998) for chamber ensemble
Sprite (1998) for solo piccolo
Hell Bent inside the Be Oven (1999) for large ensemble
The Oxen (2000) for children's choir and small ensemble
String of Pearls (2000) for clarinet, violin and piano
Black Strokes 1 (2000) for violin and piano
Eid Milaad Saeed (2000) for solo clarinet
21st Century Junkie (2001) for six pianos
Hextych (2001) for small ensemble
Sleek Silver Symbols (2001) for soprano saxophone, electric guitar, bass guitar and percussion
Maqamat (2002) for quarter-tone alto flute
Un Chant d'amour (2003) for Piano - 4 hands
Into my burning veins a poison (2004) for quarter-tone alto flute, piano and tape
Gonk (2004) for bassoon and tape
Shest Bulgarski Pesni za Detstvoto (2005) for children's choir and small ensemble
Gaia Sketches (2005) for cello with Hyperbow and live electronics
Music of the Spheres (2006) for piano and planets (sound file)
Escape Velocity (2006) for accordion and string quartet
Mercurial Sparks, Volatile Shadows (2006) for alto flute and piano
Coalescence (2006) for clarinet, live electronics and movement sensors
Transillient Fragments (2007) for violin and piano
Fata Morgana (2007) for cello with Hyperbow, ensemble and live electronics
Lauten (2007) for small ensemble
Prism (2008) for bassett clarinet and piano
47 Tucanae (2008) for piano (four hands) and pulsars (sound file)
Shoaling (2008) for harp, live electronics and movement sensors
Intra aspicere (2008) for orchestra and live electronics
... of bones and muscle (2009) for piano and electronics
Isochronous (2010) for piano, percussion and pulsars (sound file/electronics)
Cameo for Carla (2010) for solo piano
Pareidolia I (2012) for bass clarinet, sensors and live electronics
Maya (2012) for two flutes, alto flute and sound file
Shadowplay (2013 rev. 2015) for bass clarinet
Gaudete (2013) for choir (SSAATTBB)
Morphosis (2014) for piano, sensors and live electronics
Eight Cryptograms (2015) for solo piano
Lamellae (2015) for solo carillons a musique (30-note manual music box)
Sotto un Cielo Lunare di Sangue (2018) for harp and piano
Veiled (2019) for solo oboe
Five Miniatures (2019) for horn (F or Eb) and piano
Pandit (2023) for solo clarinet and Tanpura app