Benjamin
Wright
Trumpet
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A former member of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra and of the Chicago Symphony, Benjamin Wright joined the Boston Symphony trumpet section in July 2002. While a student in Cleveland, Wright won the International Trumpet Guild and National Trumpet Competitions, as well as the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition, and was awarded the Bernard Adelstein Prize for Trumpet Performance upon graduating. Mr. Wright has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. In June of 2006, he performed as guest principal trumpet with the San Francisco Symphony including performances of Mahler's8th Symphony. Beginning in Fall 2006, he will serve as acting assistant principal trumpet in the BSO. He has given masterclasses at the Manhattan School of Music and Interlochen Center for the Arts, and has been a guest faculty member for the Bar Harbor Brass and the National Orchestral Institute.
B.M., Cleveland Institute of Music with Michael Sachs; additional studies with Mark Gould, Charlie Geyer, and Chris Gekker. Also faculty of Longy School of Music and the Boston Conservatory.