THE BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales (BBC NOW) have announced their 2015-16 season.

BBC NOW will be touring Patagonia in autumn but before they go they will perform three afternoon concerts to explore the music from across the Americas at BBC Hoddinott Hall.

On September 18, American conductor Edwin Outwater will explore music from Argentina, Roberto, Roberto Minczuk will bring music from his native Brazil on October 9, and Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra comes to Cardiff for the first time on November 29 with music from her homeland, alongside works from Chile, Uruguay and Argentina.

BBC NOW’s new composer-in-association, Huw Watkins, will be explored in depth throughout the season including a ‘Composer Portrait’ at BBC Hoddinott Hall on February 24, 2016, featuring Anthem, Speak Seven Seas and Partita, written for solo violin in 2006.

Soprano Ruby Hughes joins the orchestra for a performance of Remember, a work written especially by Watkins for the Hughes. Double Concerto was written for violist Philip Dukes and cellist Josephine Knight and received its premiere in 2005 at the BBC Proms.

This concert is conducted by Garry Walker. Other performances of Watkins’ work include the St David’s Hall season opening concert on October 3 which features his London Concerto and on March 18, 2016 flautist Adam Walker performs the staggeringly virtuosic Flute Concerto, written especially for Walker and first performed in 2014 with the London Symphony Orchestra. The performance will be conducted by Thomas Søndergård.

For the full list of concerts please visit bbc.co.uk/now.