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Richard Elliot Haynes

• Performances of repertoire from the 16th to 21st centuries all over the world in a multitude of contexts

• Solo debut aged 17 with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra performing the Clarinet Concerto by John Veale

• Concerto performances with the Berner Symphonieorchester, Camerata Ataremac, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Proton, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Philharmonic Orchestra Vorpommern, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

• First Prize winner of Australia's Young Performer of the Year and the Australian Art Music Award for Performance of the Year

• First Prize winner of the International Concours Nicati Switzerland and the Eduard Tschumi Music Prize

• Appearances 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, MaerzMusik Berlin, Archipel Geneva, Vienna Modern, the Festspiele of Berlin and Salzburg and New York's Lincoln Center Festival

• 2024-2025 Ad interim section clarinet and bass clarinet with the Zurich Opera & Ballet Orchestra, the Philharmonia Zürich; past orchestral engagements with the Basel Sinfonietta, Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neues Orchester Basel, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, the Radio Symphony Orchestras of the SWR (Stuttgart) and WDR (Cologne) as principal and section clarinettist (including E-flat and bass clarinet)

• Regular international concert activity as a clarinettist with Blattwerk Quintett, Collegium Novum Zurich, Elision Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Phoenix, Ensemble Proton, Ensemble Resonanz, Klangforum Wien, Manufaktur für Aktuelle Musik, Praesenz, Stroma and 175 East

• Dedicatee of new solo works for clarinet by Samuel Andreyev, Trevor Bača, Richard Barrett, Jean-Pascal Chaigne, Robert Dahm, Chris Dench, Walter Feldmann, Füsun Köksal, Liza Lim, Timothy McCormack, Michael Norris, Enno Poppe, Nemanja Radivojević, Dominique Schafer and Jeroen Speak

• Residencies at UC Berkeley, Canterbury, Griffith, Harvard, Huddersfield, Melbourne, Stanford and Sydney Universities as well as CALarts, New Zealand School of Music and the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart with solo recitals, composer-performer collaborations, lectures, clarinet and chamber music coaching