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What does it really take to build a career as a professional composer?
Watch the panel discussion and hear insights from leading figures across the industry.

Composition: Wales 2026

  1. What does it really take to build a career as a professional composer?
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    What does it really take to build a career as a professional composer?
  2. Are you interested in applying for Composition: Wales 26?
    00:57
    Are you interested in applying for Composition: Wales 26?
  3. Want to be part of something extraordinary?
    00:56
    Want to be part of something extraordinary?
  4. Learn how to publish, protect, and promote your work as a composer
    72:25
    Learn how to publish, protect, and promote your work as a composer
  5. Classics with NOW: Morfydd Owen, 'Morfa Rhuddlan'
    15:23
    Classics with NOW: Morfydd Owen, 'Morfa Rhuddlan'
  6. BBC NOW and Carolin Widmann perform Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto
    26:15
    BBC NOW and Carolin Widmann perform Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto
  7. What's in Claire Whitson's gig bag?
    06:26
    What's in Claire Whitson's gig bag?
  8. COP26 interview with Composer Affiliate, Sarah Lianne Lewis
    03:03
    COP26 interview with Composer Affiliate, Sarah Lianne Lewis
  9. Drawn to Music: Adams, Chamber Symphony Mvt 2 'Aria with Walking Bass'
    09:13
    Drawn to Music: Adams, Chamber Symphony Mvt 2 'Aria with Walking Bass'
  10. Lenny Sayers’ advice on performing and self-belief
    02:09
    Lenny Sayers’ advice on performing and self-belief
  11. Idris Lewis
    00:33
    Idris Lewis
  12. BBC NOW perform Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
    39:19
    BBC NOW perform Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
  13. BBC NOW perform Haydn Symphony No. 90 with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft
    26:20
    BBC NOW perform Haydn Symphony No. 90 with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft
  14. Strauss Rosenkavalier Suite
    31:54
    Strauss Rosenkavalier Suite
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