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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 whilst being based in Bern, Switzerland

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

• Concerto performances with orchestra or ensemble:
Aaron Copland ~ Clarinet Concerto (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra)
Oren Boneh ~ Municipal Shuffle (Ensemble Proton)
Jean-Pascal Chaigne ~ Constellation (Camerata Ataremac)
W. A. Mozart ~ Basset Horn Concerto in G Major KV 621b/622 (Camerata Ataremac)
W. A. Mozart ~ Clarinet Concerto in A Major KV 622 (Queensland Symphony Orchestra)
Peter Rankine ~ Time and the Bell (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
Eve de Castro Robinson ~ Triple Concerto (Christchurch Symphony Orchestra)
Giacinto Scelsi ~ Kya (Stroma)
Benjamin Schweitzer ~ Umbra-Antumbra-Penumbra (Philharmonic Orchestra Vorpommern)
Michael Smetanin ~ Roar (Queensland Symphony Orchestra)
Nigel Westlake ~ Invocations (Berner Symphonieorchester)
Iannis Xenakis ~ Échange (Stroma)

• 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

• Further orchestral engagements with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Zurich, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, the Radio Symphony Orchestras of the SWR (Stuttgart) and WDR (Cologne), RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra as principal, section and solo clarinettist

• Regular international concert activity as a clarinettist with Basel Sinfonietta, 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