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Richard 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 SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory), a part of the school of Architecture+Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).

He is the winner of major prizes in 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 (APRA) and the Australian Music Centre (AMC), a Lord Mayor of Brisbane Performing Arts Fellowship, the 2006 Musikpreis of the Berner Oddfellows (Switzerland) and the prize for most outstanding graduating soloist, the Tschumi Musikpreis 2008.

Richard has appeared as soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, The Queensland Orchestra and Stroma, under the direction of Markus Stenz, Sebastian Lang Lessing, Hamish McKeich, Paul Mann, Kenneth Young, Michael Christie and Ola Rudner, performing works by Aaron Copland, W. A. Mozart, Peter Rankine, Nigel Sabin, Giacinto Scelsi, Michael Smetanin, John Veale and Iannis Xenakis. Richard has recorded works by Richard Barrett, Alban Berg, Chris Dench, Brian Ferneyhough, Andrew Ford, Guus Janssen, Dominik Karski, Liza Lim, Theo Loevendie, Michael Schneider and Johannes Maria Staud for CD release and broadcast.

He is a member of 175 East (NZ), ELISION Ensemble (UK), PRAESENZ (Switzerland/Germany), Stroma (NZ) and works as a freelance musician with Ensemble Modern (Germany), musikFabrik (Germany), Klangforum Wien (Austria), CIKADA (Norway), as an improviser and on solo projects at festivals in London, Melbourne, Berlin and Auckland.

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