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.

In 2010-11 Brian conducted the RPO in Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony in Malvern and Wolverhampton, Richard Strauss & Brahms  - click for review - at London’s Royal Festival Hall and Handel’s Messiah - click for review - at the Royal Albert Hall. Highlights of 2011 were Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in London, Holst & Dvorak - click for review - MSO’s Centenary Concert and Mahler 5 with MSO and a return to Bucharest to conduct the George Enescu Philharmonic in Haydn, Mozart  - video on youtube - and Beethoven.

In the Autumn of 2011 Brian conducted Shostakovich 5  and Dvorak 5  with MSO, and Elgar & Vaughan Williams  and Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall with the RPO. In February 2012 he conducted Nielsen & Sibelius 1 with MSO and March brought an extremely well received Mozart programme - click here for review - at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. This month brings Elgar 1 with MSO, and in June Brian conducts an Open-air Gala with the RPO and a programme of Schubert & Brahms  with Goldsmiths Choral Union at St. John’s, Smith Square.

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 May 2012

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

Brian Wright is represented by Connaught Artists Management