Richard Haynes (musician)

Haynes with a clarinet d'amore

Richard Elliot Haynes (born 18 April 1983) is an Australian clarinetist residing in Switzerland. He performs music spanning the 18th to 21st centuries worldwide, but predominantly Neue Musik and contemporary music, in a variety of contexts.

Education[]

Haynes was born in Brisbane, Australia. He received piano lessons from 1989, and from 1992 also clarinet and later viola lessons, occasionally with a scholarship. In 2000, he graduated from upper secondary school.

From 2000 to 2003 he studied clarinet, bass clarinet and classical music 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. From 2006 to 2008 he continued his studies with  [de] and Donna Wagner-Molinari at the University of the Arts Bern, where he studied clarinet and classical music as well as Neue Musik. He completed his studies with a soloist's diploma in clarinet with distinction. 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, Clarinet and Composition) at the Bern University of the Arts.

Awards[]

During his studies Haynes received the following awards:

• 2000: Queensland Young Instrumentalist of the Year
• 2003: Australian Young Performer of the Year
• 2004: APRA AMC Art Music Award 2004: Best Performance of Australian Music
• 2005: City of Brisbane Cultural Scholarship 2004
• 2006: Cultural Scholarship of the Goethe-Institut Melbourne for Cultural Excellence
• 2008: Music Award of the Eduard Tschumi Foundation
• 2008: Australian Research Council Linkage Scholarship (APAI)
• 2009: First prize of the Fondation Nicati Concours (National: Switzerland).^[1]
• 2009: Australian Research Council (APAI)^[2]

Activity as a clarinetist[]

Since his solo debut with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17 with the Clarinet Concerto by John Veale, Haynes has performed other concertos by Aaron Copland, W. A. Mozart, Rankine, Smetanin, 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 and Paris, as well as the Lucerne Festival, the Holland Festival, the Warsaw Autumn, the MaerzMusik Berlin, the Festival Archipel Geneva, the Wien Modern, the Salzburg Festivals and the New York Lincoln Center Festival. The symphony orchestras of Christchurch, Dublin, Queensland, Tasmania, the Theaterorchester Hagen (with the Basel Sinfonietta) and the radio symphony orchestras of Südwestrundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk have repeatedly engaged Haynes as solo or vocal clarinetist in various projects.

Since 2005 he has been a member of the Australian ELISION Ensemble, an international contemporary music ensemble, and for several years has been a member of the German-Swiss ensemble Praesenz, the New Zealand ensemble Stroma and the  [de]. In Europe, he has performed with Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt am Main), Klangforum Wien, musikFabrik (Cologne) and CIKADA (Oslo).

Haynes was temporary engaged for giving 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 and the 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.

Activities of Haynes in the aftermath of the Corona crisis, i.e. from about the beginning of 2021, are regular concerts with the Ensemble Proton and the BlattWerk Quintet, mainly in Switzerland, sometimes in other European countries and overseas, the realization of selective projects with the Basel Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Phoenix Basel, the Klangforum Wien and the Ensemble Musikfabrik, as well as recurring activities as a lecturer in contemporary music at the isa - International Summer Academy Vienna.

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New Works for clarinet[]

New works for clarinet have been written for him and dedicated to him by Samuel Andreyev, , Richard Barrett, Aaron Cassidy, , ,  [de], Füsun Köksal, Liza Lim, , Michael Norris, Enno Poppe, , Rebecca Saunders, 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 , BEGEHREN by Beat Furrer, MONDPARSIFAL 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: The 24 Hours of the Day by Karlheinz Stockhausen.^[3]

World premieres[]

Haynes has premiered a number of new compositions, including these:

• Aaron Cassidy asphyxia (1999–2000) for soprano saxophone
• David Chisholm The Beginning and the End of the Snow (2005–2007) for mezzo soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet, viola, violoncello, piano/harpsichord/celeste, harp^[4]
• Robert Dahm I watched you as you disappeared (2005) for bass clarinet solo (composed for Richard Haynes)
• Robert Dahm These are the Numbers (2007) for clarinet in E-flat, percussion and violoncello
• Chris Dench sum over histories (2006) for bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet (composed for Richard Haynes and Carl Rosman)
• James Dillon Theatrum: figurae (2007) for oboe, clarinet/contrabass clarinet, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone and percussion
• Evan Johnson Apostrophe 1 (all communication is a form of complaint) (2008) for 2 bass clarinets (composed for Richard Haynes and Carl Rosman)
• Alan Lawrence Jacques Pasquier rencontre Yvonne Audette ici (2004) for clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello
• Liza Lim Sonorous Body (2008) for solo clarinet in B-flat (composed for Richard Haynes)
• Timothy McCormack disfix (2008) for bass clarinet, piccolo trumpet and trombone (composed for ELISION Ensemble)
• Thomas Meadowcroft Monaro Study (2008) for 2 clarinets and tape
• Maurizio Pisati Habergeiss (2003) for bass clarinet and guitar
• John Rodgers Ciacco solo from the ensemble work Inferno (1999–2000) for bass clarinet and electronics
• Rebecca Saunders Aether for two bass clarinets (composed for Richard Haynes and Carl Rosman)
• Jeroen Speak Silk Dialogue VI (2008) for solo clarinet in E-flat and ensemble (commissioned by and dedicated to Richard Haynes)
• David Young Breath Control (2008) for solo clarinet (composed for Richard Haynes)

First recordings[]

Haynes was the first to record the following works on CD:

• Aaron Cassidy asphyxia – NEOS Records^[5]
• David Chisholm The Beginning and the End of the Snow – Independent
• Chris Dench ik[s]land(s) – NMC Records^[6]
• Brian Ferneyhough Les Froissements des Ailes de Gabriel – KAIROS^[7]
• Ivana Loudova Aulos and Air – ABC Classics^[8]
• Liza Lim Songs found in dream – HCR Records
• Ivana Loudová Aulos und Air – ABC Classics
• Timothy McCormack Disfix – HCR Records
• Dominique Schafer Ringwood (written for and dedicated to Richard Haynes) – KAIROS
• Karlheinz Stockhausen Glanz – Stockhausen Records

Instruments[]

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).^[9]

Discography[]

There are approximately 40 CD recordings by Haynes, details of which are listed on his website.^[10]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website