Brian Wright is one of the UK's most active conductors and has also worked as a BBC Radio and TV broadcaster. He was a Gulbenkian scholar in London and Munich, working closely with Jascha Horenstein and Rudolf Kempe, and later won second prizes in competitions with the London Symphony Orchestra and at La Scala, Milan.

In 1975 Brian was appointed assistant to André Previn and the LSO. A year later he became a conductor to the BBC in London, giving concerts and broadcasts with all the BBC orchestras. He won special praise during the 1980s for his performances of Berlioz and Liszt at the BBC Promenade concerts and for premières of works by Penderecki and the British composer Robert Simpson. On Radio 3, the BBC's classical music station, Brian became associated with the "Choir Works" series. He also conducted an acclaimed production of Stravinsky's ballet Pulcinella for BBC2.

Brian Wright has conducted every major British orchestra and given London concerts with the LSO, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia and English Chamber Orchestra. He has toured Belgium and Switzerland with the BBC SO and Greece with the RPO. He has also appeared as a guest conductor in Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico and Switzerland. Among recent achievements, he conducted the Asian première of Anthony Payne's critically acclaimed completion of Elgar's Third Symphony. Brian has recorded for EMI and the Crystal and Regis Tro labels. Brian has been Music Director of Goldsmiths Choral Union since 1973. He is also Music Director of the Maidstone Orchestral Society and conductor of Maidstone Symphony Orchestra, one of the UK's leading "community" orchestras.

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