Matt Laing - Composer - Violist
Upcoming projects
2022
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**
November 17 Thursday 6pm
Perpetual Motion - Affinity Quartet
Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
In perpetuum (2021/22) 23', for string quartet**
*Australian premiere
**World premiere
Past Projects
2022
March 12 Saturday 8pm
Night Terrors - Melbourne Chamber Players
Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St Brunswick
Night Terrors (2020) 12', for clarinet, cello and piano**
March 19-29
HOME - Wattleseed Ensemble
From Home (2020/21) 15' for baroque string trio**
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**
August 7 2pm
McClelland, 390 McClelland Drive Langwarrin VIC
Wattleseed Ensemble
From Home (2021) 15', for baroque string trio
August 10-27
Australian national tour
Z.E.N. Trio, presented by Musica Viva
Little Cataclysms (2022) 16', for piano trio**
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**
November 17 Thursday 6pm
Perpetual Motion - Affinity Quartet
Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
In perpetuum (2021/22) 23', for string quartet**
2021
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**
November 25-28 Thursday 7.30pm, Sunday 2.30pm
Melbourne Recital Centre
Dixit Dominus - Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
Pantomime (2020) 9' for string orchestra**
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**
2020
February 10-18 London
Affinity Quartet and Lotte Betts-Dean
Portrait of Blood (2019) 5', for mezzo-soprano and string quartet**
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
October 24 Thursday 7pm
The Newsagency
Henry Justo
Liebeslied (2015) 5', for solo viola
October 20 Sunday 3pm
Utzon Room
Katie Yap
Liebeslied (2015) 5', for solo viola**
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
December 5, Tuesday 6pm
Docklands Library
Flinders Quartet Composer Workshop (link to livestream)
Flinders Quartet
Shapes (2017) 11' for string quartet**
Reviews, interviews
Reviews
Sydney evening, Sydney matinee, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart
Z.E.N. Trio - Little Cataclysms, national tour August 2022
ANAM Set Festival Opening Night -Destructive Interference
Lily Bryant, ANAM, May 2022
Classic Melbourne Review - Pantomime
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra November 2021
Classic Melbourne Review - Out of Hibernation
Flinders Quartet Program 1, 2019
Ensemble Offspring Forbidden Things 2019
Interviews
What is contemporary classical music?
Published by the Australian National Academy of Music
September 2021
Limelight -Matthew Laing named as a Musica Viva FutureMaker
July 2021
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
Meet our newest FutureMaker Matt Laing July 2021
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