Richard Haynes joined ELISION Ensemble in 2005 and has since given first performances of works by Richard Barrett, Aaron Cassidy, Robert Dahm, Chris Dench, James Dillon, Einar Torfi Einarsson, Ray Evanoff, David Brynjar Franszon, 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 and CONSTRUCTION by Richard Barrett, Moon Spirit Feasting (Yuè Lìng Jié) and The Navigator by Liza Lim as well as recording works by Aaron Cassidy, Chris Dench, Brian Ferneyhough, Evan Johnson, Dominik Karski and Liza Lim for CD release on the KAIROS, HCR, NEOS and NMC labels.
Richard Haynes works regularly as a soloist and ensemble musician in collaboration with ensembles and festivals of international importance. He is well-known as a freelance artist through projects 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 Concours Nicati, 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 the clarinet concerti by Copland, Mozart and Veale, Time and the Bell by Peter Rankine, An Australian Holiday by Nigel Sabin, Kya by Giacinto Scelsi, Roar by Michael Smetanin, Invocations by Nigel Westlake and Échange by Iannis Xenakis.
Further performing highlights have included collaborations with ensembles and artists including Klangforum Wien (Vienna), 175 East (Auckland), Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt am Main), Ensemble 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, Contempuls Prague, 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.
Richard Haynes is clarinettist and webmaster of the ELISION Ensemble.
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