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Brian
Wright studied conducting as a Gulbenkian scholar in London and Munich,
working closely with George Hurst, Jascha Horenstein and Rudolf Kempe. He
won Second Prize in the Rupert Foundation Competition with the London
Symphony Orchestra and the Silver Medal in the Guido Cantelli Conducting
Competition at La Scala, Milan. He was Assistant to André Previn and the LSO
and for ten years was Associate Conductor with the BBC, conducting concerts
and broadcasts with all the BBC's orchestras.
Brian won particular praise for his 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 - now on DVD.
Brian is currently Music Director of Maidstone Symphony Orchestra and of
Goldsmiths Choral Union in London. He has conducted the LSO at London’s
Barbican Hall, and the BBCSO, Philharmonia, London Philharmonic and RPO at
the Royal Festival Hall. He has been guest conductor with all the other
major British orchestras - the BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of
Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham
Symphony, English Chamber, Hallé, London Mozart Players, Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National and Ulster Orchestra. In June 2005 he
conducted the opening concert of BBC Radio 3’s award winning “Beethoven
Experience”. He has toured in Europe with the BBCSO, in Europe and the Far
East with the RPO, and has recorded for EMI and Decca in the UK, Teldec and
Crystal Records in the USA and Spanish Regis Tro.
Brian enjoys a close association with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In
2000/1 he conducted the RPO in a tour of China – “A great interpretation
from a world class conductor and orchestra” ... “A concert on the highest
level in China in recent years", wrote the Shanghai press. He regularly
conducts in the RPO’s London International Series, performing at both the
Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall. In 2006/7 he conducted an acclaimed
broadcast performance of Berlioz’s monumental Grande Messe des Morts for the
RPO at the Royal Albert Hall and the last two seasons have brought Elgar’s
The Dream of Gerontius, Fauré’s Requiem and Berlioz’s Te Deum. He conducts
Verdi’s Requiem for the RPO at the RAH in 2009/10 and future plans include
Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem coupled with Strauss’s Four Last Songs at the
Royal Festival Hall in 2010/11.
Brian has been a guest conductor in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Canada,
China, France, Hong Kong, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Mexico, Romania,
the Seychelles, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland. He gave the
Asian première of Anthony Payne’s realisation of Elgar’s 3rd Symphony with
the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2003/4 was a guest conductor
with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He was Music Director for the
Seychelles International Festivals of 2002 and 2004. In 2007 he was a guest
conductor in Norway and Slovenia, and with the George Enescu Philharmonic in
Romania, where he returns in 2010/11.
and welcome to our website.
For more information about Brian Wright please see his website: http://www.brianwright.co.uk/