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.
