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Conductor
Brian Wright won the Silver Medal in the
Guido Cantelli Conducting Competition at La Scala, Milan, and Second Prize
in the Rupert Foundation Competition with the London Symphony Orchestra. He
was Assistant to André Previn and the LSO and spent ten years as Associate
Conductor with the BBC, conducting concerts and broadcasts with all the
BBC's orchestras. He studied conducting as a Gulbenkian scholar in London
and Munich, working closely with George Hurst, Jascha Horenstein and Rudolf
Kempe.
Brian won particular praise for performances
of Berlioz and Liszt at the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony and Royal
Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as for UK premières of Lutoslawski and
Penderecki and the world première of Robert Simpson’s 7th Symphony. He
conducted the BBCSO in an acclaimed BBC2 production of Stravinsky's
Pulcinella - available on DVD.
Brian is Music Director of the highly
regarded UK “community orchestra”, Maidstone Symphony Orchestra. He has
conducted all the major British orchestras - the LSO, BBCSO, RPO,
Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, English Chamber, BBC Philharmonic, BBC
National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony,
City of Birmingham Symphony, Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal
Scottish National and Ulster Orchestra. He has toured in Europe with the
BBCSO, in Europe and the Far East with the RPO, and has been a guest
conductor in Bulgaria, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Mexico,
Romania, Singapore, Switzerland and the USA. He has recorded for EMI and
Decca in the UK, Teldec and Crystal in the USA and Spanish Regis Tro. In
2006/7 he guest conducts in Norway, Slovenia and Romania.
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