At the same time he was musical director of the Southend Symphony Orchestra and the New Westminster Chorus.
In 1984, as part of the 3rd International Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition Vienna, he was awarded the special prize for the interpretation of 20th century music.
At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, Bramall became permanent guest conductor at the Leipzig Opera.
[2] Guest engagements have taken him to the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich,[3] the Semperoper Dresden (including musical direction of the new productions La Cenerentola and Madama Butterfly), the Staatsoper Hannover, the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich, the RIAS Radio Orchestra Berlin.
He has also appeared as a guest conductor in Gothenburg, Bonn, Darmstadt, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Karlsruhe, Wiesbaden, Bratislava, Bucharest, Poznan, as well as at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Japan, in Mexico City and in the US.