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"great British hope - Dominic Nunns: conductor, horn-player and Mozart collaborator"

The Times

as Composer/Orchestrator

"...at the age of 19...[he] took it upon himself to finish the incomplete fragment of a concerto composed by arguably the greatest musical genius who ever lived. But Mr. Nunns's completed score of Mozart's would-be fifth horn concerto has been widely praised by the experts, and...was awarded the ultimate seal of approval when it was published by the German company Bärenreiter, the world's leading publisher of Mozart's music."

Nigel Williamson, Times Educational Supplement

"...LXG is a powerhouse score which all agree is a great listen...excitingly full-blooded action tracks"

www.soundtrack.net

"...the great asset of the music for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: the sustained action."

www.filmtracks.com

"Don't miss [the joyous] Swing News - surely this is what Trevor and his revamped bongs should have done?"

The Guardian

"If only the real news could be Swing News..."

The Times

"The recording of Life is Beautiful went very well. I hope to be in touch soon with other projects."

James Fitzpatrick, Tadlow Music/Silva Screen Records

"I'm very much impressed by your realisation. I have often wondered if anyone might complete it. But of course a movement without a development section demands courage, and a deep knowledge of Mozart's procedures. I think the completion highly successful, and I can't imagine anyone (other than Mozart) doing it better. The piece is well worth reviving: there are some individual, very characteristic and beautiful phrases in what Mozart wrote, and Mozartians should be very grateful to you for making it a viable piece in performance."

Stanley Sadie, musicologist, Mozart specialist and former Editor of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

as Conductor

"Dominic Nunns...and his flamboyant conducting style produced some fine performances from the area's premier orchestra. Mr. Nunns tried everything within his power to coax out the emotional intensity of Barber's Adagio for Strings [with] his heartfelt direction. [Schumann's 2nd Symphony]...was assured and polished and full of vitality...The sheer quality of the orchestral playing won the hearts of the audience."

Braintree Times

"...conductor Dominic Nunns gives [the Brighton Youth Orchestra Wind Ensemble] great technique and maturity...these youngsters came up trumps every time"

Brighton Argus

"The Royal Academy of Music's main concert venue, the Duke's hall, is used to showcasing young talent and last week's concert given by the Marylebone Chamber Orchestra was no exception. Dominic Nunns, the twentysomething founder of the ensemble, is a conductor to look out for.

His programming mixed a celebrated classic - Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21 in C - with a little known - Boreraig by fresh-on-the-composing-scene Stuart MacRae. Nunns's interpretation of these, together with an insightful reading of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, confirmed him as a man able to straddle styles, but one who carries it out with discerning ears. his beat is basic and clear, his movements economic. That's fine; he achieves desirable results. It was obvious, too, that Nunns was respected within the orchestral ranks.

Soloist Min-Jung Kim lent Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21 a certain intimacy. Her phrasing was elegant, her touch sensitive, although at times she needed to communicate a more vibrant edge to her audience: the last movement, in particular, suffered from too few pianistic climaxes.

Judging from Boreraig, MacRae is a composer who loves to explore the sonorities at his disposal. It was the first piece I have heard by him, but I'd like to hear more. Moods were clear and delineated. Repetitive yet slow-moving note clusters from woodwind, followed by a rumbling drum, set the eerie scene; an intensifying string crescendo gathered momentum. Tension subsided with the emergence of a melody with Celtic leanings. But this soon passed through the strings in a frenzy. Calmness came from innocent cheeps from the woodwind which soared above the strings, but it was short-lived. The two drummers and brass provided an outrageous calamity, all the more effective when followed by waves of glockenspiel, glissando strings and ghostly utterances from a muted trumpet and piccolo."

Hampstead and Highgate Express

as Horn-Player

"Credit is due to Dominic Nunns, Duncan Fuller and Anne Wynne for their inspirational performance..."

www.thisisworthing.co.uk

"The [Zephyr Ensemble of London] are a young and feisty wind ensemble...They are all skillful performers and the ensemble works together superbly...The quintet for piano and wind was fabulous. This...was one of Mozart's favourite pieces and this group did him proud."

Brighton Argus

"A memorable concert version of Elektra by Richard Strauss...the UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra, the international orchestra of young instrumentalists created for the festival, conquered the score in a performance which reached the highest spheres"

Le Temps, Switzerland

"In Mozart's Horn Concerto in E Major, soloist Dominic Nunns produced a rounded and resonant sound. This edition...was compiled by the soloist and is a significant addition to the horn repertory...Dominic Nunns returned for the Horn Concerto No.1 in Eb Major by Richard Strauss, using his mellow, ringing tone to good effect...especially evocative in the slow lament of the andante. In the closing movement there was some dynamic and virtuosic playing from the soloist...[the] quick-fingered accuracy was a delight."

Braintree Times