BBC National Orchestra of Wales is one of the UK’s most versatile orchestras, with a varied range of work as both a broadcast orchestra and the national symphony orchestra of Wales. It performs live to tens of thousands of people across the UK each year and can be regularly heard on BBC radio, television and online. The Orchestra is supported by the Arts Council of Wales, and forms part of BBC Wales.

Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård enters his fifth year with the Orchestra in 2016, with many critically acclaimed performances of major works signifying a strong relationship between Thomas and the Orchestra and the international standard of those performances. As one of the six BBC Performing Groups the Orchestra has a busy schedule of live concerts, broadcasts, recordings particularly for Radio 3 and the BBC Proms. The orchestra is also a centre of excellence for soundtracks regularly recording the music for many of the BBC’s highest profile TV and film productions including War & Peace, Life Story and Doctor Who. BBC National Orchestra of Wales is based at BBC Hoddinott Hall, part of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay and is Orchestra-in-Residence at St David’s Hall, Cardiff – Wales’ National Concert Hall.

BBC NOW perform a busy schedule of live concerts, touring the length and breadth of Wales, as well as venues around the rest of the UK and abroad. Autumn 2015 saw the orchestra deliver one of its most ambitious to date in a three week tour of South America; including a highly impactful community residency in the Chubut Province of Patagonia. The Orchestra is invited to perform at festivals throughout Wales and the UK each year, and appears biennially at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. The Orchestra also appears in several concerts annually as part of the BBC Proms.

Learning is at the heart of the organisation, with a broad outreach programme, developing exciting, distinctive and memorable experiences for all ages. In 2014, the Orchestra was seen by hundreds of thousands of primary schools pupils in the first film for BBC Music’s Ten Pieces project, inspiring a generation of children to get creative with classical music. Other recent projects include an innovative concert format designed for audience of deafened and hard of hearing.

Auditions will be held in late June 2016 (exact dates tbc) at BBC Hoddinott Hall.

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