Flinders Quartet have announced the four rising composers selected to participate in its 2025 Emerge Program.

Naomi Dodd, Ben Hoadley, Jessie Leov and Callum O’Reilly will undertake a year-long development program which includes score study sessions, workshops, industry advocacy, composition mentoring and the creation of a six minute piece, to be premiered, recorded and filmed by the quartet in November.

Top row: Naomi Dodd (supplied), Ben Hoadley (© Milena Parobczy); Bottom row: Callum O’Reilly (supplied), Jessie Leov (© Nishaa Senarath-Dassanayake).

This year’s program also sees a first-time collaboration with The Hush Foundation, a charity which aims to draw upon on the arts and music to to bolster the quality and culture of health care. Aligning with the Foundation’s vision, the four works produced during this year’s Emerge program will centre around “healing and reflection” for use in operating theatres, waiting rooms, treatment rooms and common spaces.

Sydney-based Naomi Dodd is an alum of both the Omega Ensemble’s 2023 CoLAB program and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Cybec Young Composers Program; selected as the 2024 Cybec Composer in Residence. She was also chosen as a participant for the 2024–25...