Bramwell Tovey, composer and conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra – obituary

• Bramwell Tovey, who has died aged 69, was a British orchestral conductor and composer who spent much of his career popularising classical music in Canada; latterly his impeccably clear beat was deployed to good effect on these shores as principal conductor since 2018 of the BBC Concert Orchestra, including directing them in a programme of 20th-century British film music at last year’s Proms.