The Emerging Composers Forum was established in 2012, a national event creating opportunities for emerging composers through supporting the creation, workshopping, performance and recording of their works with the support of ABC Classic FM.

The Soundstream education stream creates open dialogue between conductors, musicians and the public through Musician Workshops, Visiting Composer Residencies, large scale community events and such intimate events as the New Waves Listening Club.

The 2025 ECF provides an extraordinary opportunity to work with the Inarma Choir (SA/NT), an acapella chamber choir who will share their rich Indigenous choral tradition. The Choir are senior songwomen whose spiritual roots span 60,000 years. They have been singing on Country together in Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara for 50 years, and have recently been joined by their younger family members, strengthening intergenerational ties and making the choir wiru mulapa (strong). 

The 2025 ECF will also embrace site-specific music-making, taking the Aldinga Scrub and found objects as inspiration, with mentorship from esteemed site-specific music practitioners Jesse Budel (AUS) and Cheryl Leonard (USA).