If Bramwell Tovey were to offer a modern-day equivalent to the protagonist he built his new opera around, he would point to Bernie Madoff.
The story about the convicted American businessman who defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars through a Ponzi scheme surfaced just as Tovey was writing The Inventor, his first full-scale opera about the life of Alexander "Sandy" Keith Jr., the nephew of the famous Maritime brewmaster.
ABOUT TOVEY
Bramwell Tovey is a Grammy-award winning conductor, who is known locally as the music director with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
A composer and pianist, Tovey has also worked with the Luxembourg Philharmonic and the Winnipeg Symphony orchestras. Tovey is the first artist to win a Juno Award in both conducting and composition. In 2003, he received a Juno for Best Canadian Classical Composition for his Requiem for a Charred Skull, performed and recorded by the Amadeus Choir and the Hannaford Band in Toronto.
