DAVID NUNN
composer
March 2020
David Nunn is a composer and music educator based in London. His output encompasses instrumental, vocal, choral, and electronic music, and ranges from solo to orchestral in scope. Through his music, he aims to create an escapism for the listener, and his music is often driven by circular processes and immersive textures. It is sometimes minimal and introspective, and at other times joyous and chaotic. He is a founder and co-director of Stomping Ground Collective.
He has written for groups such as The Hermes Experiment, Psappha, and the New London Children's Choir. His choral music has been performed by numerous choirs across Europe, in the US, and in the Far East, and his choral and electronic music is featured on the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge's August 2023 release New Millenium.
He studied with Helen Grime at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the RCS Muriel Dawson Award and Alan Bush Composition Prize, and he also studied with Julian Anderson and Christian Mason. His music is published non-exclusively by Black Dot Press.
If you would like to perform his music or commission a piece, please get in touch.
Download: CV (Apr 2021) Work list (May 2021)
Contact: davidnunnmusic[at]gmail[dot]com
upcoming performances
23 September 2023, 7pm
Siobhan Davies Studios, London
patchwork for music boxes and digital piano
new work for toy piano
Kate Ryder, toy piano
recent performances
11 June 2023
Crypt of St John's Smith Square
music in sixths for two violas
I've got a home in that rock (arr.)
Duo Alti
7 March 2023
St Mary's Church, Barnes
Cairies
Equinox Duo
7 & 29 October 2022
St. John's College, Cambridge
oh pristine example
The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
Andrew Nethsingha, conductor
7 July 2022
St. John's College, Cambridge
Sitivit anima mea
The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
Andrew Nethsingha, conductor
24 June 2022
Robinson College, Cambridge
lockwood for wind quintet and piano
Ensemble Renard
21 June 2022, 6.30pm
Royal Academy of Music, London
lockwood
18 May 2022, 7pm
Pushkin House, London
lockwood
I'm excited to be involved in a new project with Psappha involving the poetry of Louise Wallwein. More to be revealed soon...
January 2020
Richmond Concert Society have commissioned me to write a new piece for Equinox Duo, as winner of the 2019 Muriel Dawson Award. I will be curating a concert of music for flute and harp, in which my new piece will be premiered. I'm really looking forward to working on this new piece with friends Esther Beyer and Mina Middleton!
October 2019
With some fantastic players from the Royal Academy of Music, led by the inimitable conductor Elias Peter Brown, I'm curating a concert featuring Schoenberg's 1912 masterpiece Pierrot lunaire. The concert will also include new works by composers Xan Gill, Sun Keting, Connor d'Netto, and Joanna Ward. Join us at 7pm on Friday 4 October at William Goodenough House, London.
August 2019
My music receives its US debut this month in a featured performance of Sitivit anima mea at KC Vitas's 2019 Summer Festival. It has been released on CD, and you can listen to the piece here. I'm very grateful to Andrew Nethsingha, director of the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, for commissioning this in 2018.
May 2019
I'm really pleased to have won the 2019 Alan Bush Composition Prize for my piece obscure sorrows, which was premiered by ensemble recherche in Freiburg in February 2019. Listen to the piece here.