Grayson Rotumah’s career has been centred within Australian Indigenous Music for over 30 years. For 25 of these years his role at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music at the University of Adelaide has been one of significant influence on many new emerging Indigenous artists. He is currently working with new emerging artists Electric Fields, Emily Warramurra and Marlon X Rulla. He has worked closely with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities around Australia and has developed music-based projects aimed at developing better outcomes for Indigenous Australians in health and correctional services. He is an Investigator on a recently awarded $1.05M ARC Discovery Indigenous grant investigating tuning systems in Indigenous music and their application in a broader context.

William Barton is Australia’s leading didgeridoo player as well as a highly esteemed composer, instrumentalist and vocalist. William first learnt the instrument from his uncle, Arthur Peterson, an Elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga people and was working from an early age with traditional dance groups, fusion/rock/jazz bands, orchestras, string quartets and mixed ensembles. Throughout his diverse career he has forged a path in the classical musical world from the London, Berlin and Bremer Philharmonic Orchestras to historic events at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day 2019, at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli and the Beijing Olympics. William holds honorary doctorates from both Griffith University and the University of Sydney. He has released 5 albums on the ABC Classics label including Heartland 2022 with Veronique Serret and the words of William’s mother, Aunty Delmae Barton. William was named Queensland Australian of the Year for 2023 and was an Australian of the Year Nominee.

Dylan Crismani is an Australian composer of Wiradjuri and European descent whose musical style varies from experimental styles to European spectraliam, American minimalism, and more conventional Classical European styles. Dylan holds a PhD in microtonal tuning theory, and is currently engaged in a number of community, arts, and research projects. Dylan’s musical compositions have been performed by the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Australian String Quartet, Gabriella Smart, Sonya Lifschitz, Lisa Moore, the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, and the Adelaide. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music at the University of Adelaide.

Luke Dollman has conducted throughout Europe and Australasia, working with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Helsinki Philharmonic, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Halle Staatskapelle, Lausanne Sinfonietta, and all of Australia’s professional orchestras. In the field of opera, he has been a regular guest at the Finnish National Opera, and has also worked for Opera Australia, the State Opera of South Australia, and the Netherlands Opera. Luke is a graduate of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and furthered his studies at the Aspen Festival of Music and Accademia Chigiana in Italy. He is Associate Professor of Conducting and Deputy Director at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide, where he collaborates regularly with his colleagues from the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music.