
Bramwell Tovey is in his 12th season as music director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO), and appears annually the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and with the New York Philharmonic on the Summertime Classics series. He has worked with the London Philharmonic, London Symphony, and Frankfurt Radio orchestras, and, in North America, the orchestras of Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Seattle, and Montreal. His ongoing performances with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra have included the world premiere of his Trumpet Concerto and a tour of China and South Korea with violinist Hillary Hahn. Mr. Tovey’s first full-length opera,
The Inventor, was premiered in Calgary in the winter of 2011; that same year he made his The Cleveland Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra debuts and returned to The Philadelphia Orchestra. Highlights of his 2010–11 season in Vancouver included Verdi’s Requiem, the Canadian premiere of John Adams’s
Dr. Atomic Symphony, and a
Bach and Beyond series.
Bramwell Tovey is also an accomplished jazz pianist, with two recordings to his name, and his television appearances have included two documentaries with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and a 1996 CBC TV broadcast of Victor Davies’s
Revelation, a full-length oratorio based on the Book of Revelation, with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. His recording with the VSO and violinist James Ehnes of the Walton, Korngold, and Barber concertos received both Grammy and Juno Awards in 2007.
Mr. Tovey, who has been awarded numerous honorary degrees, received a fellowship from the Royal Academy of Music in London, and honorary doctorates of law from the University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, and Kwantlen University College, as well as a fellowship from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He was the first artist to win Juno Awards for both conducting and composing. His other honors include the Best Canadian Classical Composition 2003 Juno Award for his
Requiem for a Charred Skull, performed and recorded by the Amadeus Choir and the Hannaford Band in Toronto, and, in 1999 the M. Joan Chalmers National Award for Artistic Direction, a prestigious Canadian prize for outstanding contributions in professional performing arts organizations.
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