Where: Langley Fine Arts School
When: Friday, February 24, 2012 @ 7 PM
Tickets: regular admission: $30, student admission: $15

The Arts Matter Lecture Series, in partnership with the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, and Research for Youth, Music and Education (RYME) is delighted to host an evening with Bramwell Tovey.

Since 2000, Bramwell Tovey has been the Vancouver Symphony's Music Director. In addition to his role at the VSO, he continues as Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and as founding host and conductor of the New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics series at Avery Fisher Hall.

In 2008, he received a Grammy award for his recording of the Barber / Korngold / Walton: Violin concertos with James Ehnes and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on the CBC Records label.

With a profound commitment to new music, Tovey has established himself as a formidable composer and is the first artist to win a Juno Award in both conducting and composing. Tovey’s other successes as composer include the well-received Urban Runway, co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008 and his Requiem for a Charred Skull, performed and recorded by the Amadeus Choir and the Hannaford Band in Toronto which received the Best Canadian Classical Composition 2003 Juno Award.

Tickets are available online or can be purchased at the Langley Fine Arts School Office.

More information: www.lfasartsmatter.com

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra website: www.vancouversymphony.ca