Organisers of the event are excited to announce that two world premieres will be presented over the long weekend.

Ross Edwards' 'Haunted Spring' will be performed for the first time by renowned Goldner String Quartet. Mr Edwards' universal music has deeply connected roots in Australia, celebrating its cultural diversity and inspired by the Australian natural environment.

Festival creative director Lindy Hume said Ross Edwards describes Haunted Spring as a "work that expresses a sense of hoped-for emergence after the complexities and lock downs of 2020".

"Edwards feels it has poignant moments but that it is overall an optimistic work, in which he was hoping for 'changes for the better' to come out of our shared experience."

Another renowned composer, James Henry, will premiere his first commission for an orchestral ensemble, 'A Rock and a Tree', at the Barragga Bay outdoor sound shell.

It will be performed by seven "athlete-artists" from the Sydney Orchestra Fellowship in the natural light of the Four Winds stage.

The composition draws on Mr Henry's Yuin heritage.

"Through my grandfather I have Yuin heritage, and I am honoured to have my first orchestral commission premiered on Yuin country, not too far from Wallaga Lake where I heard stories growing up," Mr Henry said.

"Coming from a musical family that goes back generations to my Yuin ancestors, I thought it appropriate to name the piece inspired by a Dreamtime story of Ngardi and Tunku, where Baiame gave the first man Tunku and first woman Ngardi a rock and a tree."

The symbolism for the rock and tree, which runs through not only the name but the instruments that are made of pieces of rock and trees, was done to remind people the value of the gifts from Baiame and their importance across cultures and across the ages.

Tickets can be found on the Four Winds website.