Matt Laing - Composer - Violist
Upcoming projects
2021
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April 1 Thursday 8.30pm & April 10 Saturday 8.30pm
***postponed, new date TBC***
Transfigured Night - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Renes conductor, Jack Schiller bassoon
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne
Of Paradise Lost (2020) 14', for solo bassoon and orchestra**
August 14 Saturday 8pm
Night Terrors - Melbourne Chamber Players
Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St Brunswick
Night Terrors (2020) 12', for clarinet, cello and piano**
September 30 Thursday 6pm
Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
Punctum - Affinity Quartet, with Lotte Betts-Dean
Portrait of Blood (2019) 5' for mezzo soprano and string quartet*
November 24-28
Melbourne Recital Centre, and touring Bendigo and Traralgon
Dixit Dominus - Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
Pantomime (2020) 8' for string orchestra**
*Australian premiere
**World premiere
Reviews, interviews
Reviews
Flinders Quartet Program 1, 2019
Forbidden Things 2019
Interviews
CutCommon - At home with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra - Matthew Laing
May 2020
Limelight - Matt Laing on the advantages of being a violist
February 2019
Ian Potter Cultural Trust profile
September 2018
Press
Matthew Laing announced as MSO's 2021 Cybec Young Composer in Residence
February 2020
Matt Laing announced as recipient of Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer House Trust residency for 2021
Past Projects
2021
Impulses and invention (2019-2020) 14', for bass trombone, percussion and electronics**
March 27 Saturday 6pm
From These Old Skins - Ossicle Duo
Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
2020
Portrait of Blood (2019) 5', for mezzo-soprano and string quartet**
February 10-18 London
Affinity Quartet and Lotte Betts-Dean
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If they knew (2019) 10', for chamber orchestra*
January 25 Saturday 6.30pm, Iwaki Auditorium
Cyber Young Composer Program Showcase
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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2019
Liebeslied (2015) 5', for solo viola
October 24 Thursday 7pm
The Newsagency
Henry Justo
October 20 Sunday 3pm
Utzon Room
Katie Yap
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Out of Hibernation (2018/19) 25' for string quartet
February 24-March 2
2019 Subscription Series - Program 1
Flinders Quartet
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2017
Shapes (2017) 11' for string quartet
December 5, Tuesday 6pm
Docklands Library
Flinders Quartet Composer Workshop (link to livestream)
Flinders Quartet