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 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. Brian enjoys a
particularly close association with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
and regularly conducts in the RPO’s London International Series,
performing at both the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall.
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. Last season, 2006/7, he was a guest conductor in
Norway and Slovenia, and with the George Enescu Philharmonic in
Romania, where he was immediately re-engaged for 2008/9.
