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Richard Elliot Haynes

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

First prize winner of the International Nicati Concours

Awardee of an Australian Art Music Award for Performance of the Year

Awardee of the Eduard Tschumi Music Prize

Festival 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

Orchestral engagements including a season contract as Acting Section Clarinet and Bass Clarinet with the Zurich Opera & Ballet Orchestra and freelance work with the Basel Sinfonietta, Sinfonia Valais-Wallis, l’Orchestre des Jardins Musicaux, 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/or section clarinettist (including E-flat and bass clarinet)

International concert activity spanning over 20 years as a clarinettist with ensembles such as Blattwerk Quintett, Collegium Novum Zurich, Elision Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Lemniscate, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Neuverband, Ensemble Phoenix, Ensemble Proton, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Risonanze Erranti, Klangforum Wien, Manufaktur für Aktuelle Musik, Praesenz, Stroma, Topology 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, Jonah Haven, 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, the New Zealand School of Music | Te Kōki and the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart involving solo recitals, composer-performer collaborations, lectures, clarinet and chamber music coaching

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