Matt Laing - Composer - Violist
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
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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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
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
Henry Justo
Liebeslied (2015) 5', for solo viola
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October 20 Sunday 3pm
Utzon Room
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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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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