- Artist Lecturer in trumpet
- Brass Ensemble
- Brass Pedagogy
- Brass Literature
melnw01@moravian.edu
Lawrence Wright, trumpeter, is a native of Grand Junction, Colo. He received his BA from Denison University, where he was a member of the academic honorary Phi Beta Kappa, and earned his Masters Degree from Juilliard, where he was a student of Mel Broiles and William Vacchiano. He is now principal trumpet and soloist of the Bethlehem Bach Festival Orchestra, the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, Allentown Symphony, and co-principal trumpet of the renowned Philadelphia Brass. Larry has performed with the New York Metropolitan Opera, the New Jersey Symphony, the Caramoor Festival, and the Italian Spoleto Festival, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. He was a featured soloist in the PBS broadcast of Stravinsky's L'histoire du Soldat and recorded The Sacred Trumpet Soloist, available through Alfred Publishing. Other recordings include the Bach Choir of Bethlehem's Mass in b minor and Christmas Oratorio on the Dorian label, Renaissance and Baroque and Christmas with Philadelphia Brass, and Joan Lippincott and Philadelphia Brass on the Gothic label. He appeared as soloist with the Schuylkill Symphony, the Allentown Band, the Mexican State Orchestra, and with artists Arleen Auger, Sylvia McNair, Emanuel Ax and Menahem Pressler. In 2005 he was awarded the Performer Ovation Award by the Allentown Arts Commission together with his wife, flutist Robin Kani. Larry is dedicated to the art of teaching as well as performing, a member of the faculties of Moravian College, Lehigh University, and Kani and Wright Ltd., where he instructs a full roster of students of all ages. He owns about a dozen trumpets, which according to him is far too few, and about 160 mouthpieces, which according to just about anybody is way too many.
