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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.
  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. BBC NOW perform Colin Matthews '... through the glass' with conductor Martyn Brabbins
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    BBC NOW perform Colin Matthews '... through the glass' with conductor Martyn Brabbins
  3. Richard Hickox
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    Richard Hickox
  4. BBC NOW and Carolin Widmann perform Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto
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    BBC NOW and Carolin Widmann perform Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto
  5. Classics with NOW: Tchaikovsky, Fantasy-overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’
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    Classics with NOW: Tchaikovsky, Fantasy-overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’
  6. Gavin Higgins What Wild Ecstasy
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    Gavin Higgins What Wild Ecstasy
  7. Classics with NOW: Holst, ‘The Planets'
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    Classics with NOW: Holst, ‘The Planets'
  8. Classics with NOW: Bizet, 'Carmen Suite No. 1'
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    Classics with NOW: Bizet, 'Carmen Suite No. 1'
  9. Discover More: Jon James introduces Dvořák’s Symphony No 9
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    Discover More: Jon James introduces Dvořák’s Symphony No 9
  10. NOW... Make an Instrument: Hosepipe French Horn
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    NOW... Make an Instrument: Hosepipe French Horn
  11. Meeting other composers is invaluable
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    Meeting other composers is invaluable
  12. Classics with NOW: Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 1 in G minor, 'Winter Dreams'
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    Classics with NOW: Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 1 in G minor, 'Winter Dreams'
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