Brian Wright - Conductor

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Brian enjoys a close association with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, regularly conducting in their London season. A highlight of 2006 was an acclaimed broadcast performance of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts  and recent RPO seasons have included Berlioz’s Te Deum and Verdi’s Requiem. Recently he has been a guest conductor in Norway, Slovenia, and Romania.

Last season, 2010-11, Brian conducted Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony with the RPO and a programme of Richard Strauss & Brahms  - click for review - at London’s Royal Festival Hall. In December 2010 he conducted Handel’s Messiah - click for review - at the Royal Albert Hall. Highlights of 2011 have been Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in London, Holst & Dvorak - click for review - Brahms, Britten and a John McCabe premiere and Mahler 5 with MSO and he returned to Bucharest to conduct the George Enescu Philharmonic.

In the Autumn of 2011 Brian conducted Shostakovich 5  with MSO and Elgar & Vaughan Williams  with the RPO. In December he conducted Dvorak 5  with MSO, a Christmas concert at London’s Cadogan Hall and two performances of Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall.

Welcome to the web-site of the internationally renowned British conductor, Brian Wright.


Brian was second prize-winner in conducting competitions with the London Symphony Orchestra and at La Scala, Milan. He was Assistant Conductor to André Previn and the LSO and Associate Conductor to the BBC in London. He has conducted all the major British orchestras, winning particular praise for performances at the BBC Proms.


Brian is a regular guest conductor in Britain and Europe, and in Asia he has toured in China with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestras. In the UK,  Brian is currently Music Director of Maidstone Symphony Orchestra and Goldsmiths Choral Union, London.

Conductor Brian Wright displayed some superb manipulation of the orchestra’s energies (RPO) ... a compelling and captivating performance - musicOMH / Brahms & Strauss / Royal Festival Hall

The atmosphere was festive, communal, familial. But immediately the opening notes sounded, under the baton of the experienced Brian Wright, the crowd listened, stock still. The fortissimo heave and swell of the massed choirs, especially for the upstanding “Hallelujah”s, had exciting impact - The Observer / Handel’s Messiah / Royal Albert Hall

One of the most talented and musically imaginative of our conductors - Daily Telegraph

Using clear and simple gestures with what might be called classical restraint, Wright conducted with wonderful skill - The Scotsman

Warner/NVC Arts DVD release of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Brian conducting the BBCSO

Site updated January 2012

Site wallpaper, by kind permission, from a painting by Emma Abnett

Brian Wright is represented by Connaught Artists Management