What does it really take to build a career as a professional composer?

BBC NOW perform Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

BBC NOW perform Wagner's Siegfried Idyll

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Meeting other composers is invaluable

Laura Sinnerton on practising difficult passages

BBC NOW perform Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte

Discover More: Conflict and Triumph

Are you interested in applying for Composition: Wales 26?

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales perform Boulanger's Vieille priere bouddhique - tenor solo by Deryck Webb

Mark Wigglesworth

Could Composition: Wales 2027 be your next step?