News

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ANAM Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Performer Fellow 2026-2027

ANAM is delighted to announce the latest recipients of the Ian Potter Emerging Performers Fellowships for 2025. Alumni Matt Laing (viola 2013) and Simone Slattery (violin 2011) will each receive $50,000 per year for two years ($100,000 total), plus mentorship from industry professionals, to establish their own independent artistic practice.

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Albert H Maggs Composition Award 2025

 

Composer and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music alumnus Matt Laing is the 2025 recipient of the Albert H Maggs Composition Award for his composition This Waking Moment.
 

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Reviews

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Sydney Arts Guide - "Little Cataclysms  brought writing for the piano trio well up to date... Laing is obviously an intelligent, effective composer. He displayed in this world premiere a high level of solid, calm, modern expressionism and the ability to create simple, simply beautiful and fresh ways for the piano trio voice to touch us deeply."

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Classic Melbourne - "Quirkily humorous, (Pantomime) is essentially a dark tale, musically rendered in a carefully constructed interweaving of motifs... (the work) followed a disturbing but ingenious musical trajectory."  

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Limelight - "Laing has a deft sense of movement; his work is fit for choreography, for bodies shifting in space, and this work (Destructive Interference), which was as much about the silence he wrote as the notes, was no exception."