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Upcoming projects

2023​

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November 11, 7.30pm

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Ensemble Offspring: Hatched Composer Showcase

The Nielson, ACO Pier 2/3

Suite 3/13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW 2000

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New work** (2023) 7-10' for violin, cello, flute, clarinet and percussion 

Ensemble Offspring

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*Australian premiere

**World premiere

Past Projects

2023

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May 3-14

ANAM Quartetthaus at Melbourne Museum

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Space Exploration (2020) 3', for string quartet

Alkyona Quartet

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In perpetuum (2021/22) 23', for string quartet

Affinity Quartet

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May 19 Friday 7.30pm

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Romeo and Juliet, Melbourne Recital Centre

Of paradise lost (1st movement) (2020/21) 18', for solo bassoon and orchestra

Lyndon Watts, bassoon

Richard Davis, conductor

University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

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July 18-22

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International Double Reed Society Conference

College of Music, Mahidol University, Thailand 

Bangkok, Thailand

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Of paradise lost (1st movement) (2020/21) 18' 

for solo bassoon and orchestra

Lyndon Watts, bassoon

Gordon Hunt, conductor

Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra

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August 5-19

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Darmstadt Festival

Summer course participant

Darmstadt, Germany

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*Australian premiere

**World premiere

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2022

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March 12 Saturday 8pm

Night Terrors - Melbourne Chamber Players

Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St Brunswick

Night Terrors (2020) 12', for clarinet, cello and piano**

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March 19-29 

HOME - Wattleseed Ensemble

From Home (2020/21) 15' for baroque string trio**

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July 14-16 Thursday 7.30pm, Friday 7.30pm, Saturday 2pm

Hamer Hall,  Arts Centre Melbourne

Vasily Petrenko Conducts Elgar-  Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jack Schiller bassoon, Vasily Petrenko conductor

Of Paradise Lost (2020/21) 22', for solo bassoon and orchestra**

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August 7 2pm

McClelland, 390 McClelland Drive Langwarrin VIC 

Home

Wattleseed Ensemble

From Home (2021) 15', for baroque string trio

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August 10-27

Australian national tour

Z.E.N. Trio, presented by Musica Viva

Little Cataclysms (2022) 16', for piano trio**

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November 5 Saturday 5pm, 7.30pm

Transient States - Australian String Quartet

The Lab, 63 Light Square, Adelaide

Space exploration (2020) 2'30", for string quartet**

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November 17 Thursday 6pm

Perpetual Motion - Affinity Quartet

Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre

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In perpetuum (2021/22) 23', for string quartet**

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2021

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March 27 Saturday 6pm

From These Old Skins - Ossicle Duo 

Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre

Impulses and invention  (2019-2020) 17', for bass trombone, percussion and electronics**

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November 25-28 Thursday 7.30pm, Sunday 2.30pm

Melbourne Recital Centre

Dixit Dominus  - Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

Pantomime (2020) 9' for string orchestra**

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December 8 Wednesday 1pm

Abbotsford Convent, Oratory, 1 St Heliers St Abbotsford

ANAM recital: Lily Bryant - Lily Bryant, flute

Destructive Interference (2021) 9' for solo flute**

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2020

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February 10-18 London

Affinity Quartet and Lotte Betts-Dean

Portrait of Blood (2019) 5', for mezzo-soprano and string quartet**

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January 25 Saturday 6.30pm, Iwaki Auditorium

Cyber Young Composer Program Showcase

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

If they knew (2019) 11', for chamber orchestra**

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2019

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October 24 Thursday 7pm

The Newsagency

Forbidden Things

Henry Justo

Liebeslied (2015) 5', for solo viola

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October 20 Sunday 3pm

Utzon Room

Freedman Classical Fellowship

Katie Yap

Liebeslied (2015) 5', for solo viola**

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February 24-March 2

2019 Subscription Series - Program 1

Flinders Quartet

Out of Hibernation (2018/19) 25' for string quartet**

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2017

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December 5, Tuesday 6pm

Docklands Library

Flinders Quartet Composer Workshop (link to livestream)

Flinders Quartet

Shapes (2017) 11' for string quartet**

Reviews, interviews

Reviews

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Sydney evening, Sydney matinee, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart

Z.E.N. Trio - Little Cataclysms, national tour August 2022

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ANAM Set Festival Opening Night -Destructive Interference

Lily Bryant, ANAM, May 2022

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Classic Melbourne Review - Pantomime

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra November 2021

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Classic Melbourne Review - Out of Hibernation  

Flinders Quartet Program 1, 2019

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Limelight Review- Liebeslied

Ensemble Offspring Forbidden Things 2019

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Interviews

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What is contemporary classical music?

Published by the Australian National Academy of Music

September 2021

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Limelight -Matthew Laing named as a Musica Viva FutureMaker

July 2021

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CutCommon - At home with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra - Matthew Laing

May 2020

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Limelight - Matt Laing on the advantages of being a violist

February 2019

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Ian Potter Cultural Trust profile

September 2018

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Press

Meet our newest FutureMaker Matt Laing July 2021

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Matthew Laing announced as MSO's 2021 Cybec Young Composer in Residence

February 2020

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Matt Laing announced as recipient of Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composer House Trust residency for 2021

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