Richard Haynes

Richard Haynes (b.1983, Brisbane, Australia) is based in Bern, Switzerland. After a solo debut aged 17 with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra performing the Clarinet Concerto by John Veale, he has gone on to perform concertos by Mozart, Copland, Rankine, Scelsi, Schweitzer, Smetanin, Westlake and Xenakis. He is a First Prize winner of Australia’s Young Performer of the Year and the International Concours Nicati Switzerland, and winner of an Australian Art Music Award for Performance of the Year and the Eduard Tschumi Music Prize. Haynes has appeared at many of the major Australian, American and European festivals for classical and contemporary music, including the international arts festivals of Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, Holland Festival, Budapest, Paris and Warsaw Autumn Festivals, Tage für Neue Musik Zurich, MaerzMusik, Archipel, Vienna Modern, Berlin and Salzburg Festspiele and Lincoln Center Festival (NYC). He has enjoyed orchestral engagements with the Basel Sinfonietta, the Christchurch, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the SWR and WDR Radio Symphony Orchestras as principal, section and solo clarinettist. Haynes has been regularly engaged by Blattwerk Quintett, Collegium Novum Zurich, Elision Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Phoenix, Ensemble Proton, Ensemble Resonanz, Klangforum Wien, Manufaktur Aktueller Musik, Praesenz, Stroma and 175 East. As dedicatee of solo works for clarinet by Andreyev, Barrett, Dench, Feldmann, Lim, McCormack, Norris, Poppe, Schafer and Speak, Haynes is active in nurturing new music for all clarinets. He has played in performances of major instrumental, operatic and theatrical works such as Gurrelieder (Schoenberg), explosante fixe (Boulez), CONSTRUCTION (Barrett), Written on Skin (Benjamin), BEGEHREN (Furrer), Par-Ze-Fool (B. Lang), The Navigator (Lim), Delusion of the Fury (Partch), Stasis (Saunders) and KLANG (Stockhausen). Haynes has been invited to undertake residencies at the Berkeley, Canterbury, Griffith, Harvard, Huddersfield, Melbourne, Stanford and Sydney Universities, CALarts, New Zealand School of Music and the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart whilst providing clarinet coaching for Studio Musikfabrik and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne.

[photo (C) Stefan Hānni]