Based on folk tunes and featuring the lullaby Huna Blentyn at its heart, Welsh composer Grace Williams’ Hen Walia kicks off our performance at this years North Wales International Music Festival.

BBC NOW audience favourite Nil Venditti takes to the podium in Newtown this September with a programme featuring the ingenuity of Dvořák, but opening with Barry-born Grace Williams’ Hen Walia

BBC NOW audience favourite Nil Venditti takes to the podium in Newport this September with a programme of popular classics.

In a programme putting our fantastic musicians front and centre we kick off our 2025-26 season in BBC Hoddinott Hall with a showcase for our brass section – Schumann’s Four Marches.

Fifty years after his death we celebrate the mastery of Shostakovich in a concert featuring his Violin Concerto and the mighty Seventh Symphony under the baton of our much-loved Principal Conductor, Ryan Bancroft.

Experience world-class voices at a dazzling Gala Concert at Wales Millennium Centre, part of the Llais Festival. Joined by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, this one-night-only event is your chance to enjoy Cardiff Singer before its 2027 return.

In a second nod to Shostakovich in the 50th anniversary year of his death BBC NOW’s Guest Principal Conductor Jaime Martin presents a programme including his Theme and Variations and Second Piano Concerto.

Join BBC National Chorus of Wales and their Artistic Director, Adrian Partington, in St Davids this October as they perform this gentle and deeply personal Requiem in the idyllic setting of St Davids Cathedral

Under the baton of British conductor Chloe Rooke, we’ll be joined by acclaimed violinist Tobias Feldman for a programme of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert.

Join us this October for the much anticipated return of our Halloween Spooktacular!

Join us this October for the much anticipated return of our Halloween Spooktacular!

We turn to nature in tonight’s concert, opening with Vaughan Williams’ overture to The Wasps.

Finland meets the French Horns as we travel to Aberystwyth this November as French Horn superstar Ben Goldscheider joins us on the road for two concertos, those of Huw Watkins and Mozart.

Finland meets the French Horns as we travel to Aberystwyth and Bangor this November as French Horn superstar Ben Goldscheider joins us on the road for two concertos, those of Huw Watkins and Mozart.

A musical celebration of BBC Bangor’s 90th anniversary, featuring some of the most popular songs of the period performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and our special guest musicians!

In our annual ‘Grace’ series exploring both the music of Grace Williams and female composers in music, this November we showcase works by living composers Anna Semple and Julia Wolfe, all under the baton of Stephanie Childress.

Nil Venditti returns to BBC Hoddinott Hall this November with another programme featuring Respighi and Rossini, this time alongside the iconic Violin Concerto by Barber and the UK premiere of María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir’s Oceans.

Join us for a special concert where talented young musicians from the National Youth Orchestra of Wales (NYOW) perform side by side with world-class players from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Fairytale meets humour and heartbreak in this magical concert conducted by BBC NOW’s Principal Guest Conductor Jaime Martín.

Join BBC National Chorus of Wales with their artistic director Adrian Partington, alongside a massed Children’s Choir from schools across Wales for this glittering, annual Christmas festivity.

Continue your festive season with BBC National Orchestra of Wales this Christmas with a cracker of a concert featuring all your favourite Christmas songs

Continue your festive season with BBC National Orchestra of Wales this Christmas with a cracker of a concert featuring all your favourite Christmas songs