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[1] and the Alan Bush Prize for Transilient Fragments in 2008.[2] 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.[3] His compositional work is currently published by Cadenza Music (Wise Music),[4] Composers Edition [5] and the ABRSM. In 2013, Nunn was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM).[6]
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
Nunn has been shortlisted five times for the British Composers Award: in 2006 for Gaia Sketches,[1] in 2007 for Escape Velocity,[7] in 2008 for Transilient Fragments,[8] in 2009 for Prism[9] and in 2012 for Pareidolia I.[10]
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