Matt Laing - Composer - Violist
Upcoming projects
2022
May 13-15
Abbotsford Convent
Lily Bryant, Flute
Destructive Interference (2021) 8' for solo flute
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 13-27
Z.E.N. Trio, presented by Musica Viva
New work (2022), for piano trio**
Touring dates
Melbourne: Saturday 13th 7pm, Tuesday 23rd 7pm Melbourne Recital Centre
Perth: Monday 15th 7.30pm, Perth Concert Hall
Canberra: Thursday 18th 7pm, Llewellyn Hall, Australian National University
Sydney: Saturday 20th 2pm, Monday 22nd 7pm, City Recital Hall
Adelaide: Thursday 25th 7.30pm, Adelaide Town Hall
Newcastle: Saturday 27th 7.30pm, Newcastle City Hall
Follow the links here for more information.
September 18-28
Quartetthaus at Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall, London
Affinity Quartet
New work (2021/22) 20', for string quartet**
November 17 Thursday 6pm
Perpetual Motion - Affinity Quartet
Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre
New work (2021/22) 20', for string quartet*
*Australian premiere
**World premiere
Reviews, interviews
Reviews
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
Past Projects
2022
March 12 Saturday 8pm
Night Terrors (2020) 12', for clarinet, cello and piano
Night Terrors - Melbourne Chamber Players
Tempo Rubato, 34 Breese St Brunswick
March 19-29
From Home (2020/21) 15' for baroque string trio
HOME - Wattleseed Ensemble
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
Pantomime (2020) 8' for string orchestra**
November 25-28 Thursday 7.30pm, Sunday 2.30pm
Melbourne Recital Centre
Dixit Dominus - Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
Destructive Interference (2021) 8' for solo flute**
December 8 Wednesday 1pm
Abbotsford Convent, Oratory, 1 St Heliers St Abbotsford
ANAM recital: Lily Bryant - Lily Bryant, flute
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