New South Australian music festival ReClassified has announced its choice of six emerging composers for its inaugural year, running across three Sundays in November.

Connor Fogarty, Esmond Choi, Aaron Pelle, Lauren McCormick, Georgina Bowden and Hannah Wilkinson will write and workshop compositions for a trio of musicians for the festival. Under the mentorship of established composers including Anne Cawrse, David John Lang, Rachel Bruerville and Martin Cheney, the works will be developed for performances at the North Adelaide Baptist Church and Hall, Stangate House, Aldgate and Z-Ward, Glenside.

Esmond Choi, Lauren McCormick, Hannah Wilkinson, Aaron Pelle, Connor Fogarty. Photo supplied.

“To be a composer you need to be insatiably curious and prepared for a lifetime of learning. I feel the team of composers and performers we’ve assembled for ReClassified will all learn from one another, and together create a very special and important musical experience,” mentor and workshop leader Anne Cawrse says of the selected artists. The participants were selected as a result of the “quality of their pre-existing work, and their demonstration of...