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Compose Yourself

Jane Magowan

Catherine Ross

Jannine Waddell

David Cumming

Compose Yourself: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC One - Compose Yourself, Episode 1

Dozens of young hopefuls are auditioned at secondary schools across Belfast.

Concert pianist Barry Douglas and a team of musicians search for eight young novices who must learn an instrument well enough to play in an orchestral concert in just eight months.

Internationally renowned concert pianist Barry Douglas and a team of musicians from the City of Belfast School of Music begin the search for eight young musical novices. The challenge for the children? To learn an orchestral instrument well enough to play in an orchestral concert at Belfast City Hall in just eight months.

Dozens of young hopefuls are put through their paces in a series of auditions at secondary schools across Belfast, separating the tuneful from the tone deaf until one hundred have been whittled down to eight.

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Pianist Barry Douglas aims to turn eight children from novices into concert performers

Renowned concert pianist Barry Douglas returns to his native Belfast in an attempt to transform eight secondary school children from musical novices to concert performers in just eight months

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