Matt Laing
composer/performer
List of works
Solo works
Monologue (2014) // for solo e flat clarinet 5’
Written for Justin Beere, premiered November 2014
Liebeslied (2015) // for solo viola 5’
Premiered by Katie Yap, June 2019
Pieces of isolation (2020) // for solo violin 11'
Destructive Interference (2021) // for solo flute 9'
Written for the ANAM Set Festival, premiered by Lily Bryant December 2021
Chamber music
Shapes (2017) // for string quartet 11’
Written for Flinders Quartet, premiered December 2017
Streams (2018) // for wind quintet 10'
Out of Hibernation (2018/19) // for string quartet 24’
Written for Flinders Quartet, premiered February 2019
Portrait of Blood (2019) // for mezzo soprano and string quartet 5’
Written for Lotte Betts-Dean and Affinity Quartet, premiered February 2020
Impulses and Invention (2020) // for bass trombone, percussion and electronics 17'
Written for Ossicle Duo, premiered February 2021
Night Terrors (2020) // for clarinet, cello and piano 12'
Written for Melbourne Chamber Players, premiered March 2022
Space Exploration (2020) // for string quartet 3'
Written for Australian String Quartet, premiered November 2022
From Home (2020-21) // for string trio 19'
Written for Wattleseed Ensemble, premiered March 2022
Little Cataclysms (2022) // for piano trio 16'
Written for Z.E.N. Trio, commissioned by Musica Viva Australia, premiered August 2022
In perpetuum (2022) // for string quartet 23'
Written for Affinity Quartet, premiered November 2022
Orchestral music
If they knew (2019) // for small orchestra 10’
Written for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, premiered January 2020
Pantomime (2020) // for string orchestra 9'
Written for Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, premiered November 2021
Of Paradise Lost (2020/21) // for solo bassoon and orchestra 28'
Written for Jack Schiller and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko, premiered July 2022
Upcoming
Timepiece (2023)// for violin, cello, piccolo, bass clarinet and percussion 8', for the Ensemble Offspring Hatched Composer Program, premiere November 2023
UTOPIA (2023) // created with Lilian Steiner, for 4 performers, electronics 60'