The Schmitt Music Trumpet Shop and Yamaha are proud to present a Master Class with Ben Wright, trumpeter, educator, and soloist! Please join us for this free event at Schmitt Music Brooklyn Center on Thursday, February 28 at 5:30PM.
Ben Wright, Second Trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will conduct a master class with advanced local students; all are welcome to attend and enjoy this fascinating process.
“He possesses a beautiful clear sound and a commanding grasp of a wide range of diverse repertoire. Ben Wright is a great player who promises to have a sterling and well-deserved career.”
– John Williams, Boston Pops Director Laureate and Academy Award winning composer
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Questions about trumpets or the master class? Contact Keith Hilson, Schmitt Music Brass Shop Manager and Trombone Specialist, at 763-566-4560 for more information.
Ben Wright
Benjamin Wright enjoys a varied career, performing as a member of the Boston Symphony, as a soloist and chamber musician, and teaching. 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.
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. Wright studied at the Interlochen Arts Academy and received his bachelor’s in music at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 1996 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 in 1997.
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, Juilliard, Yale, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Arizona, Temple University, Mannes, SMU, Baylor, Yale, and Interlochen Center for the Arts. He has been a guest faculty member for the Bar Harbor Brass Institute, the National Orchestral Institute, and, since 2003, faculty at the Tanglewood Music Center.
His students have performed as members of the Atlanta, Dallas, Utah, Sarasota, and Seattle Symphonies, as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and orchestras in Asia.
Mr. Wright is a Yamaha Performing Artist. Learn more here: benwrighttrumpet.com.
