Richard Haynes
Biography Richard Haynes
Richard Haynes
performs music spanning the 18th to 21st centuries all over the world in a multitude of contexts. During the course of undergraduate study at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and further study at the University of Arts Bern his teachers included Brian Catchlove, Paul Dean, Ernesto Molinari, Diana Tolmie, Donna Wagner-Molinari and Floyd Williams.
Since his solo debut with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17 performing the Clarinet Concerto by John Veale, Richard Haynes has performed further concerti by Copland, Mozart, Rankine, Smetanin, Westlake and Xenakis to acclaim, won the title of Australia's Young Performer of the Year and the Australian Art Music Award for Performance of the Year and has received invitations to the academies of Acanthes, Bang on a Can, Darmstadt, Ensemble Modern, impuls and Lucerne Festival. Richard Haynes has maintained regular concert activity in Europe, the USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand over the last 15 years and is a 1st Prize Winner of the International Concours Nicati Switzerland and the 2008 recipient of the Tschumi Music Prize.
Richard Haynes has performed to acclaim at many of the major Australian, American and European festivals for classical and contemporary music as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, including the international arts festivals of Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, Holland Festival, Budapest, Paris and Warsaw Autumn Festivals, MaerzMusik Berlin, Archipel Geneva, Vienna Modern, Salzburg Festspiele and New York's Lincoln Center Festival. The symphony orchestras of Christchurch, Dublin, Hagen, Queensland, Tasmania and the radio symphony orchestras of the SWR and WDR have engaged Richard Haynes as principal, section or solo clarinettist in various projects spanning the last 15 years. He maintains regular international concert activity as clarinettist of Ensemble Proton Bern, Manufaktur für Aktuelle Musik, Elision Ensemble and Praesenz and is a regular guest performer with the Basel Sinfonietta, Collegium Novum Zurich, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Phoenix Basel and Stroma.
