Richard Haynes

Richard Elliot Haynes (born 18 April 1983) is an Australian clarinettist residing in Switzerland.

He received piano lessons from 1989, and from 1992 viola and later clarinet lessons, graduating from high school in 2000.

From 2000 to 2003 he studied clarinet, bass clarinet with Floyd Williams, Brian Catchlove and Diana Tolmie at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in Brisbane where he also obtained a Bachelor of Music in 2006.

Since 2005 he has been a member of the Australian international contemporary music ensemble, ELISION.

From 2006 to 2008 he continued his studies with Ernesto Molinari and Donna Wagner-Molinari at the University of the Arts Bern, where he studied classical and contemporary music, receiving a Soloist Diploma in clarinet with distinction.

2007 saw the foundation of chamber music ensemble, Præsenz and in 2012 and 2013 he began working with Manufaktur für Aktuelle Musik and Ensemble Proton Bern respectively.

Haynes was a temporary member of 175 East (Auckland) and Stroma (Wellington) from 2007 to 2011.

He also has performed with CIKADA (Oslo), Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble Garage (Cologne), Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt am Main), Ensemble Musikfabrik (Cologne), Ensemble oh-ton (Oldenburg), Ensemble Phoenix (Basel), Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg), Ensemble risonanze erranti (Munich) and Klangforum Wien (Vienna).

Haynes has enjoyed temporary or contract employment, providing solo recitals, lectures and coachings for providing clarinet and chamber music at the music universities of University of California, Berkeley, Canterbury University, Christchurch, Griffith University, Queensland Conservatorium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Huddersfield University, Huddersfield, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Stanford University, Stanford, Sydney Conservatorium, University of Sydney, California Institute of the Arts, New Zealand School of Music the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.

He was engaged as soloist for Brian Ferneyhough's La Chute d'Icare for the "Campus Conducting" programme at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden and performed this work with 28 different conductors.

Haynes is a teacher of the master classes for contemporary music at the isa - International Summer Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

New works for clarinet have been written for him and dedicated to him by Samuel Andreyev, Trevor Bača, Richard Barrett, Aaron Cassidy, Robert Dahm, Chris Dench, Walter Feldmann, Füsun Köksal, Liza Lim, Timothy McCormack, Michael Norris, Enno Poppe, Nemanja Radivojević, Rebecca Saunders, Dominique Schafer and Jeroen Speak.

He has performed in major instrumental, operatic or theatrical works such as CONSTRUCTION and Opening of the Mouth by Richard Barrett, Written on Skin by George Benjamin, EvE & ADINN by Sivan Cohen Elias, BEGEHREN by Beat Furrer, Par-Ze-Fool by Bernhard Lang, Moon Spirit Feasting and The Navigator by Liza Lim, Delusion of the Fury by Harry Partch, Chroma and Stasis by Rebecca Saunders, El Publico by Mauricio Sotelo and KLANG: Die 24 Stunden des Tages by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Richard Haynes owns and plays the following clarinets :

E-flat clarinet (Selmer), C clarinet (Noblet), B/A clarinets (Schwenk & Seggelke),

Clarinet d'amore in G (Seggelke clarinets) and basset horn in F (Leblanc),

Bass clarinet in B (Selmer), contralto clarinet in E-flat (Leblanc) and contralto bass clarinet in B (Leblanc).

There are approximately 40 CD recordings by Haynes, details of which are listed on his website.

From 2008 to 2012, he held a clarinet research fellowship at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

This involved research into contemporary sounds and works for clarinet and electronics, in collaboration with the Australian ELISION Ensemble.

From 2015 to 2018, he attended a Contemporary Arts Practice (sound arts, performance art and composition) at the Bern University of the Arts.

During his studies Haynes received the following awards:

Haynes appeared in his solo debut with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17 with the Clarinet Concerto by John Veale, going on to perform further concertos by Aaron Copland, W. A. Mozart, Peter Rankine, Michael Smetanin, Nigel Westlake and Iannis Xenakis.

Since completing his studies in Brisbane, he has performed regularly in Europe, the United States, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

He has performed as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician at many of the major Australian, American and European classical and contemporary music festivals, including the international arts festivals of Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, Budapest, Paris and Warsaw, as well as the Lucerne Festival, the Holland Festival, MaerzMusik Berlin, Festival Archipel Geneva, Wien Modern, Salzburg Festivals and Lincoln Center Festival New York City.

As an orchestral musician, Haynes has been engaged by the SWR and WDR Symphony Orchestras, Basel Sinfonietta, Theaterorchester Hagen and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

He has had the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Christchurch, Queensland, Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Dublin) and the Bern Symphony Orchestra.

He performs music spanning the 16th to 21st centuries worldwide, but predominantly music by living composers, in a multitude of contexts.

Haynes was born in Brisbane, Australia.

The reed quintet BlattWerk was founded in 2016 with which Haynes has performed throughout Switzerland.