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The Petyan Quartet has its origins in a work composed by Johanna Selleck in 2015 entitled Hoon! Black Cockatoo for clarinet, harp, electronics (bird calls), and yidaki (didgeridoo). The piece was composed in reponse to a call for scores by the Melbourne Composers' League and was premiered in August 2015  by Robert Schubert (clarinet), Jacinta Dennett (harp), Namatjira Morgan (yidaki), and Johanna elleck (electronics).  The following year, the piece was featured in concerts at Melbourne University and Barwon Heads and subsequently arranged into a version for bass flute, viola, harp, and yidaki for a Melbourne Composer’s League exchange concert with the Japan Federation of Composers. In this version, it received performances in Brighton in November 2016 followed by a repeat concert in Ueno, Japan, in March 2017. Another arrangement for C flute, viola, harp, and yidaki was completed in 2019 for a performance at the 2020 Australian Youth Orchestra National Camp featuring William Barton on yidaki.  Since then, the ensemble has given multiple performances featuring proud Djab Wurrung/Gunditj Mara man Amos Roach on yidaki alongside Johanna Selleck (flute), William Vyvyan Murray (viola) and Jacinta Dennett (harp).  Dennett has been the core performer in every performance to date. Under Dennett's leadership and curatorial vision, the group has developed a unique approach to programming that brings together, under the theme of responses to nature,  a diverse range of compositional styes from contemporary composers to the  music of iconic composers such as Debussy. Amos's work on yidaki has been central to the development of the ensemble, its programming, and its collaborative, cross-cultural intent.  The ensemble has given highly acclaimed performances in Melbourne and regional Victoria and most recently at the Music at McClelland concert series (Langwarrin) in September 2024 wth Molly Collier-O'Boyle on viola. The group has now formalised under the banner of the Petyan Quartet.