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Richard Haynes was born in Brisbane, studied at Griffith University, Australia and at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland. He is a doctor of philosophy candidate at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, a unit of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Richard is a member of ELISION Ensemble (Australia), PRAESENZ (Switzerland/Germany) and Stroma (NZ), works as a freelance musician with 175 East (NZ), CIKADA (Norway), Ensemble Modern (Germany), Klangforum Wien (Austria) and musikFabrik (Germany) at festivals such as Paris Autumn Festival, Warsaw Autumn, MaerzMusik Berlin, Ultraschall Berlin, Festival Musica Strasbourg and the Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne International Arts Festivals; as an improviser and on solo projects (Listen my secret fetish and Ramparts of the Heavens) at festivals in Auckland, Hong Kong, Leipzig, Liverpool, London and Melbourne.

With Stroma and 175 East, Richard has performed as a soloist in works by Richard Barrett, Aaron Cassidy, James Gardner, György Kurtág, Michael Norris, Giacinto Scelsi, Jeroen Speak, Iannis Xenakis and Isang Yun including performances at the 2007 Asia-Pacific Composers’ League Festival and NZ Music Month 2009.

Richard has appeared as soloist with the Melbourne, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras and members of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (as Stroma), under the direction of conductors such as Markus Stenz, Sebastian Lang Lessing, Hamish McKeich, Paul Mann and Michael Christie. Richard has recorded works by Richard Barrett, Alban Berg, Olav Berg, Brian Ferneyhough, Robert Dahm, Chris Dench, James Gardner, Bryn Harrison, Guus Janssen, Liza Lim, Theo Loevendie, Michael Schneider, Jeroen Speak and Johannes Maria Staud, among many others, for CD release and broadcast.

He is the winner of major prizes for performance such as the 2003 Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year, the award for Best Performance of Australian Composition from the Australian Performing Rights Association and the Australian Music Centre, a Lord Mayor of Brisbane Performing Arts Fellowship, the 2006 Musikpreis of the Berner Oddfellows (Switzerland), the prize for Most Outstanding Graduating Soloist, the Tschumi Musikpreis 2008 (Switzerland) and the First Prize of the 2009 Nicati Concours for Interpretation of Contemporary Music (Switzerland).

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