Award-Winning Conductor, Composer Bramwell Tovey Dies

Award-Winning Conductor, Composer Bramwell Tovey Dies
Bramwell Tovey leads the Rhode Island Philharmonic and youth symphony in a rehearsal, in Providence, R.I., in 2016. Sandor Bodo/The Providence Journal via AP
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Bramwell Tovey, the London-born composer and conductor who’s been the principal conductor and artistic director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra since 2018, has died.

Tovey died Tuesday at his Barrington home surrounded by his family, one day after his 69th birthday, the orchestra said in a statement Wednesday.