Brian Wright - Conductor

Recent Reviews

Magnificent and memorable ... the glorious interweaving of musical textures - soft and calm, terrible and majestic - brought this masterpiece (Berlioz Requiem) to glorious life. Conductor Brian Wright created an uplifting and cathartic experience - The Observer

Even in the more elegiac parts of the score  (Elgar 2nd Symphony) Brian Wright never allowed the tension to sag or become self indulgent. This was a performance working  towards a clear goal at the end of the final movement - Adresseavisen, Trondheim

Using clear and simple gestures with what might be called classical restraint, Wright conducted with wonderful skill. The Schubert and Mozart were deeply satisfying ... in the Prokofiev Symphony he obtained a spirited, colourful account, transparent in the slow movement and showing great precision in the fast finale - The Scotsman

It has a freshness and vitality (Tchaikovsky 2nd Symphony) which the RSNO under Brian Wright brought to vivid life ... the Finale, played with bravado and panache, gave a truly exhilarating end to this concert. Brian Wright's conducting was much enjoyed by audience and orchestra alike, and his fluent yet precise direction was a major influence in this exciting performance - The Perthshire Advertiser

I have not heard such fine playing all year ... the natural trumpets blazed away brilliantly (Bach Christmas Oratorio) - Evening Standard

The passion and commitment of the orchestra was unquestionable (Mahler 9th Symphony) ... The last movement, ending with vague whispers from the strings, is in many ways the hardest to pull off. But on this occasion, under the guidance of Music Director, Brian Wright, the atmosphere was just right. The overall effect was both moving and draining for audience and orchestra alike, and this is how this wonderful music should be - Kent & Sussex Courier

At the Mote Hall on Saturday, with a sudden and unexpected jab of his baton, Brian Wright set his players in Maidstone Symphony Orchestra off on a wild spree. This was his way - and very effective it was - of dealing with one of the most notoriously difficult starts in the orchestral repertoire, that of the tone poem Don Juan by the young Richard Strauss. The horns swooped gleefully on the Don Juan motif, while the full orchestra responded with open-hearted warmth and glowing sonority - Kent & Sussex Courier

The chorus of cackling demons was spiky and alive. Elgar must have chuckled writing it ... Conductor Brian Wright drove the orchestra like a charioteer and made the improbable dream vivid (Elgar Dream of Gerontius) - Evening Standard

Another memorable evening from Brian Wright and MSO. The audience voted with their feet, not in a negative way, but by drumming them on the floor at the end of each piece - Downs Mail

TESTIMONIALS:

ANDRÉ PREVIN has written - "Brian Wright is intensely musical and I have no qualms whatsoever in recommending him to you.”

GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY has written - “ Brian Wright is an excellent symphonic conductor, an artist with deep knowledge and of scholarship, and I recommend him to you without reservation"

PAUL TORTELIER wrote - "To Brian Wright in remembrance - excellent! - of our Elgar"

JOHN LILL has written - "Brian is a truly remarkable and inspiring musician, whose powerful sense of structure matches his uncanny ability to produce maximum result with minimum focus upon himself"

RPO in Shanghai, 2001