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

Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, Nicholas Olsen

Composition: Wales 2025 - Composer, William Cox

Passion of Youth - Alice talks passion

Classical Playlist: Live - The highlights

BBC Proms - Tuning up behind stage

Six Counties Youth Concert - Rehearsal to encore

Jonny Greenwood – Rehearsing for the Proms

Jac Van Steen - Reflections after a day of rehearsal

Jonathon Heyward - Becoming a conductor

Thibaut Garcia - Learning and life on the road

Discover More: Jon James Introduces Schubert 9

Fairytales & Fantasy

BBC Hoddinott Hall

Thierry Fischer

Strauss' Four Songs op.27

BBC NOW perform Sarah Jenkins' Trallali, Trallaley, Trallalera

BBC NOW perform Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture with conductor Dougie Boyd

What happens when emerging composers get the chance to work with a symphony orchestra?

Villa-Lobos - Cello Section

The journey to the orchestra is never the same

BBC NOW's joyful rendition of 'Simple Gifts'