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Contributor


Richard Nunns

Composer, Performer

Died: 2021

Biography

Richard Nunns was one of New Zealand’s most respected performers and researchers of Maori music and instruments. He performed and recorded widely both within New Zealand and internationally across a wide range of musical genres and with groups and ensembles including Moana and the Moahunters and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Richard began his research and collaboration with Hirini Melbourne in the 1990s. Their recordings Te Ku Te Whe and Te Hekenga-a-rangi have become the seminal works of traditional Maori instrumental music.

Richard Nunns was awarded an honorary life membership of the New Zealand Flute Association, and in 2001 was awarded the KBB Citation for Services to New Zealand Music presented by the Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ). In 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Victoria University, Wellington.

2009 was a special year for Richard – not only was he awarded a QSM (Queens Service Medal) for services to taonga puoru, he was admitted to the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame and became an Artist Laureate of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.

[As an Arts Foundation Laureate more information about Richard Nunns can be found on the Arts Foundation website.]

Richard Nunns passed away in June 2021. Click here to read a tribute to Richard on the SOUNZ blog.


Composed (89)

Begin Again

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 5m 57s


Celestial Dog

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 4m 50s


City of Green

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 4m 19s


Cosmic Winds

for taonga pūoro and tape, 15m


Exctinct Species

for taonga puoro, percussion and various sounds


Hau

for taonga puoro and male voice, 1m 28s


Hau Remix

for virtual instruments, featuring original composition by Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns, 4m 26s


He Moemoea

for taonga puoro, voice, keyboard, and programming, 4m 12s


He Poroporoaki (Saying Goodbye)

for string quartet and taonga puoro, 5m


Hidden Cameras

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 1m 54s


Hikoi

improvisational conversations between Richard Nunns and Paul Dyne


In One Breath/He Whakaea Kotahi

for taonga puoro and piano, 4m


Kaore Te Po Nei Morikarika

Taonga pūoro, World Music


Koau

for taonga puoro, 1m 37s


Kohatu

for taonga puoro, voice, keyboard, and programming, 4m 55s


Kōau Remix

for taonga puoro and electronics, 3m 46s


La Morte

for taonga puoro, percussion and various sounds


Late Summer/Te Hiku o Raumati

for taonga puoro and piano, 6m


Mai I Te Kore

for taonga puoro, voice, keyboard, and programming, 5m


Matarangi

for taonga puoro, voice, keyboard and programming, 8m 12s


Material Instinct

for taonga puoro, percussion and various sounds


Mauritau – Flute, Kōauau and Karanga Manu

incidental music for a film, 2m 23s


Mercury

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 2m 12s


Ngā Kete e Toru

for piano trio and taonga puoro


Not Reconciled/Hononga Kore

for taonga puoro and piano, 3m


Old Shadows

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 6m 30s


Orohanga

for taonga puoro, keyboard, and programming, 6m 33s


Ororuarangi Remix

Remix, 4m 26s


Ororuarangi Suite

Te Reo, Taonga pūoro


Pakuru

for taonga puoro (2 players), 3m 44s


Perilous Knowledge

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 3m 23s


Play/Kori

for taonga puoro and piano, 4m


Pumotomoto

for taonga puoro and voice, 4m 33s


Raukatauri

for taonga puoro, 5m


Redaction

for taonga puoro, percussion and various sounds


Reflections II/He Hokinga Mahara

for taonga puoro and piano, 5m


Returning/Hokinga Mai

for taonga puoro and piano, 4m


Revival

for taonga puoro, percussion and various sounds


Routine Inspection

for taonga puoro, percussion and various sounds


Silence/Mumu

for taonga puoro and piano, 6m


Sleeping Giant

for taonga puoro, percussion and various sounds


Spider Shell

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 46s


Star Waka

for taonga puoro, voice, keyboard, and programming, 4m 22s


Takapau Horanui

for taonga puoro and two male voices, 3m 40s


Takapau Horanui Remix

Remix, 1m 14s


Tangi Koauau

for taonga puoro and male voice, 5m


Tangi Kōauau Remix

Remix, 30s


Tangimokemoke A Raureka

for taonga puoro and male voice, 3m


Te Aho Ku

for taonga puoro (2 players), 5m


Te Auraki a Tane

for taonga puoro (2 players), 2m


Te Ira Tangata

for taonga puoro, voice, keyboard, and programming, 5m 11s


Te Po

for taonga puoro, 5m


Te Pō Remix

Remix, 30s


The Bells/Nga Pere

for taonga puoro and piano, 8m


The Nearest Clear Liquid

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 2m 5s


The Other Door/Tera Atu Kuaha

for taonga puoro and piano, 4m


Tripped It

for taonga puoro, percussion and various sounds


Twilight/Ririko

for taonga puoro and piano, 2m


Two Minds

for taonga puoro and percussion. Co-composed with Mark Lockett.


Upper Circle, Lower Case

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 2m 53s


We Died Once

for taonga pūoro and various instruments, 1m 18s


Whanau Puhi

for taonga puoro, keyboard, and programming, 6m


Wooden Man/Tangata Rakau

for taonga puoro and piano, 4m



Commissioned (3)

Hine-pu-te-hue

for string quartet and taonga pūoro (Māori instruments), 25m


Hineraukatauri

duo for piccolo/flute/alto flute, and Maori flutes


Te Hau o Tāwhirimātea

for flute and taonga pūoro, 11m



Recordings (37)

New Zealand New Music Volume VII - CD

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Parihaka

Audio/visual


Rangirua

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Richard Nunns & Yggdrasil | SETA — CD

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Secret Sounds

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Whaea

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