Chris Hill, professional flautist and composer, shares his top tips for getting your music heard when you're trying to kick start your career. Check out this interview with Chris Hill to find out more about him. 

If you play a musical instrument or sing have you thought about joining a community band, orchestra or choir?

The destruction of a musician's wooden instruments at the hands of US customs, on the grounds that they are agricultural products and thus pose a biological hazard to native species, poses a grave question to musicians the world over: is there any justification on which an instrument that forms a key part to someone's livelihood can be destroyed because of what it is made of?