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

BBC NOW Brass and Percussion perform Gavin Higgins' Sadly Now the Throstle Sings with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft

Ryan Bancroft - Our new Principal Conductor

Bolero with Subtitles.mp4

Classics with NOW - Dvořák ‘Mass in D major’

Classics with NOW: Holst, ‘The Planets'

Mozart Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'

Adrian Partington - 'And Death Shall Have No Dominion'

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Nonet in F minor

BBC NOW perform Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp with Matthew Featherstone and Catrin Finch

Rae Jenkins

Classics with NOW: Brahms, 'Schicksalslied'

BBC NOW work with Ty Coch School in Pontypridd