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Benjamin Wright

Benjamin Wright

Education and Training

BM, Cleveland Institute of Music. Studied with Michael Sachs, Mark Gould, Charlie Geyer, and Chris Gekker.

Awards and Recognition

International Trumpet Guild

National Trumpet competition winner

Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition winner

Bernard Adelstein Prize for trumpet performance, 1997

Benjamin Wright

Division: College

Department: Brass and Percussion

Instrument: Trumpet

Benjamin Wright joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra trumpet section in July 2002 as fourth trumpet. From 2006 to 2009, he was acting assistant principal trumpet of the BSO, and in 2010 became second trumpet of the BSO, where he occupies the Arthur and Linda Gelb Chair.

Wright began playing the violin at age three, and the trumpet when he was ten. He hails from a long line of musicians going back to his great-grandfather, a bandleader and cornetist in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show.

Following two years as a member of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Wright spent two years as fourth trumpet in the Chicago Symphony. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. His appearances as guest principal trumpet with the San Francisco Symphony included performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony.

Benjamin Wright has given masterclasses at the Manhattan School of Music and Interlochen Center for the Arts, and has been a faculty member for the Bar Harbor Brass and the National Orchestral Institute.

Also faculty of Tanglewood Music Center.

Curriculum Vitae

BM, Cleveland Institute of Music. Studied with Michael Sachs, Mark Gould, Charlie Geyer, and Chris Gekker.

  • International Trumpet Guild
  • National Trumpet competition winner
  • Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition winner
  • Bernard Adelstein Prize for trumpet performance, 1997

Affiliated Departments and Programs

Brass and Percussion