Richard Haynes is an ELISION Ensemble member since 2005 and has given premiere performances of works by Richard Barrett, Aaron Cassidy, Robert Dahm, Chris Dench, Einar Torfi Einarsson, Ray Evanoff, Bryn Harrison, Evan Johnson, Dominik Karski, Liza Lim, Timothy McCormack, Timothy O’Dwyer, Maurizio Pisati, John Rodgers, Matthew Shlomowitz and Jeroen Speak. Haynes has performed as clarinettist in the major projects Opening of the Mouth by Richard Barrett, Moon Spirit Feasting (Yuè Lìng Jié) and The Navigator by Liza Lim as well as recording works by Cassidy, Dench, Ferneyhough, Johnson, Karski and Lim for later CD release.
Richard Haynes works regularly as a soloist and ensemble member in collaboration with ensembles and festivals of international importance. He is well-known as a freelance artist through projects and presentations in the USA, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Haynes was born in Brisbane, studied at the Queensland Conservatorium, Australia and at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland. He is a doctor of philosophy candidate at SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory), a part of the school of Architecture+Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology whilst maintaining a busy career on both sides of the globe.
Haynes is the winner of major prizes in performance such as the 2003 Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year, the award for Best Performance of Australian Composition from the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) and the Australian Music Centre (AMC), a Lord Mayor of Brisbane Performing Arts Fellowship, the 2006 Musikpreis of the Berner Oddfellows (Switzerland), the prize for Most Outstanding Solist Diploma at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, the Tschumi Musikpreis and first prize at the Nicati Competition, Switzerland.
Haynes has appeared as solo clarinettist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, members of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Berner Symphonie Orchester under the direction of Markus Stenz, Sebastian Lang Lessing, Paul Mann, Srboljub Dinić, Hamish McKeich, Peter Luff, Kenneth Young, Michael Christie and Ola Rudner. In his roles as soloist he has performed works encompassing different styles: Copland, Mozart, Rankine, Sabin, Scelsi, Smetanin, Veale, Westlake and Xenakis.
Further performing highlights have included collaborations with ensembles and artists including Klangforum Wien (Vienna), 175 East (Auckland), Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt am Main), musikFabrik (Cologne), Mark Knoop (London), Stroma (Wellington), Eugene Ughetti (Melbourne) pertaining to projects within independent frameworks or festivals including La Biennale di Venezia, Brisbane Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, MaerzMusik (Berlin), Oper Frankfurt, Casa Musica Porto, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisboa, Asia-Pacific Composers’ League Festival (Wellington), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Cologne), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Ultraschall Festival (Berlin), MusicaViva Australia (Melbourne), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Festival Musica Strasbourg, MusikFest Berlin, Sydney Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the Warsaw Autumn.
Solo multimedia projects have occurred in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Australia; work as an improvisor has taken place in collaboration with John Butcher, Richard Barrett, James Gardner, Johnny Chang, Leah Barclay and Marika Sosnowski.
Image © Jake Turner 2008