Matt Laing - Composer - Violist
List of works
Works of mine are currently available for purchase at the Australian Music Centre.
Solo works
Monologue (2014) for solo e flat clarinet 5’, premiered by Justin Beere 11/2014 at the Australian National Academy of Music
Liebeslied (2015) for solo viola 5’ premiered by Katie Yap 6/2019 at the Church of All Nations, Carlton (listen)
Pieces of isolation (2020) for solo violin 11', written for Erica Kennedy
Destructive Interference (2021) for solo flute 9', for Lily Bryant, Australian National Academy of Music premiered at the Abbotsford Convent 12/2021 (listen) (purchase score)
Chamber music
Shapes (2017) for string quartet 11’ premiered by the Flinders Quartet 12/2017 at the Docklands City Library, Melbourne (listen)
Streams (2018) for wind quintet 10'
Out of Hibernation (2018/19) for string quartet 24’, premiered by the Flinders Quartet 2/2019 at the Monsalvat Barn, Melbourne (listen)
Portrait of Blood (2019) for mezzo soprano and string quartet 5’, premiered by Affinity Quartet and Lotte Betts-Dean 2/2020 in London
Impulses and Invention (2020) for bass trombone, percussion and electronics 17', premiered by Ossicle Duo at the Melbourne Recital Centre 3/2021
Night Terrors (2020) for clarinet, cello and piano 12', written for Melbourne Chamber Players, premiered 3/2022
Space Exploration (2020) for string quartet 2-3', written for the Australian String Quartet (purchase score)
From Home (2020-21) for string trio 19', written for Wattleseed Ensemble, premiered 3/2022
Little Cataclysms (2022) for piano trio 16', written for Z.E.N. Trio, commissioned by Musica Viva Australia- premiere August 2022
In perpetuum (2022), for string quartet 23', written for Affinity Quartet
Orchestral music
If they knew (2019) for chamber orchestra 10’
112[1.2/bc]1 — 2211 — tmp+2 — hp — cel —str[2.2.2.2.1]
commissioned and premiered by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, January 2020 as part of their Cybec Young Composer Program (listen)
Pantomime (2020) for string orchestra 9', premiered by the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra 11/2021
Of Paradise Lost (2020/21) for solo bassoon and orchestra 28'
solo bassoon, 2[1.2/pic]2[1.2/ca]2[1.2bc]2[1.cb] - 222[1.btn]1 -tmp+1 - hp - str
written for Jack Schiller and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra premiered July 2022 (listen)