As a music teacher at an elementary school, he began to compose children's songs.
Byambasuren Sharav composed over 200 songs and composed for more than twenty major motion pictures, eight concertos for Mongolian folk instruments, three symphonies, and four ballets.
He was commissioned by Yo-Yo Ma for the Silk Road Project in 2000, for which he wrote his piece Legend of Herlen.
Two of his compositions featured at the Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival in February 2011.
[citation needed] He was also given the Labor Hero (Mongolian : Хөдөлмөрийн баатар) in 2019.