BRAMWELL TOVEY is the GRAMMY® and JUNO award-winning Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. As a guest conductor he works internationally with some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras. During 2012/13 his guest appearances include the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Boston Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony and the Toronto and Montreal Symphonies.

Maestro Tovey is also an award winning composer.  For his first appearance  in Milan, he will perform the European premiere of  Ecce Homo, a work by Jeffrey Ryan, one of  the most important contemporary canadian composer. The rest of the program offers two great symphonies: Haydn’s No. 64 Tempora mutantur and Beethoven’s No. 7.