Cadenza Musicians Directory
Instrumental Soloists

Name: Amaranta Viera
Skills: Singer, Soloist (Soprano)
Phone: +1 917 848 1185
Fax: +01 212 883 1314
Address: New York, NY, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Noted for her unusual musical versatility, warm vocal color and compelling stage presence, soprano Amaranta Viera is frequently heard on the concert stages of New York, exciting her audiences with her passion for early and Baroque music. Most recently, she appeared in the first New York Early Music Celebration singing the works of G. F. Sances and Francesca Caccini with the New York Continuo Collective, and also with Ensemble Les Goûts-Réunis, where she was a featured soloist in works by M.A. Charpentier and Paolo Lorenzani. In August, she was featured on a recital of French and Italian Baroque music under the direction of Paul O'Dette and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt at the Teatro Municipal in Vila Real, Portugal.

Ms. Viera’s repertoire reflects a wide spectrum of genres. Equally at home in early and Baroque music, Classical operatic repertoire, and twentieth-century works, her repertoire includes Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Adele in Die Fledermaus and First Fairy in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She has also been featured in Monteverdi's Il Ballo delle ingrate, and in Torrejón y Velasco's La Púrpura de la Rosa. Ms. Viera is a favorite with such ensembles as One World Symphony and Les Goûts Réunits, has performed at the Amherst Early Music Festival under the direction of Andrew Lawrence-King, and toured as a featured soloist with Piffaro, the Renaissance Band.

Ms. Viera’s studies of early repertorire have been complimented by extensive training in various areas of performance practice, including Baroque gesture, early notation, and ornamentation. She is a native of New York City, holds a degree in English literature from Williams College, and has begun studies on the Baroque guitar.

 

Name: Roger Arve Vigulf
Skills: composer, soloist (clarinet)
Phone: +4733391569
Fax: +4733391317
Address: Slemdalsvn. 95B, Oslo 0373, Norway
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Roger Arve Vigulf is one of the leading contemporary clarinetist in Norway,and he is also known for his brilliant performances of classical music. He has received brilliant critics for his performance of the Mozart Concerto. Vigulf has colleborate with many international composers, and he has been soloist at many festivals. He has played principal clarinet in The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, played in the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and has been 1.clarinetplayer in The Kristiansund Opera/Theatre Orchestra. He work now as freelance soloist, teacher, composer. His first CD "Profiles" was released in February 2000 with 4 World Premières. Vigulf has study at Eastern Concervatory of Music in Oslo with Professor Richard Kjelsrup and with Lee Morgan in Copenhagen.Vigulf is member of Trio Bela together with Geir Henning Braaten-piano and Harald Aadland-violin.

 

Name: Bruno Vlahek
Skills: Composer, Soloist (Pianist & Composer)
Links: Website     E-mail

 

Name: P. Kellach Waddle
Skills: composer, conductor, soloist
Phone: +1 512 416 9726
Address: 1720 s lakeshore #204, austin tx 78741, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
P.Kellach Waddle has written over 100 works since 1985 and his music has seen over 200 performances. While also writing for traditional media, Mr. Waddle concentrates most of his output for instruments and combinations often neglected by other 20th century composers, not to mention the standard Canon. To this end Mr. Waddle has written and had published over 40 solo and chamber works for his own instrument, the double bass as well as writing Concerti for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, Bass Clarinet, Bass Trombone and Tenor Sax. He has also written solo/chamber works for Tuba, Amglocken, Chimes, Vibraphone and Cymbals.

In addition to his activities as a composer and orchestral/chamber music bassist as well as soloist, Mr. Waddle now has an active career as a conductor. After a number of Guest Conducting Appearances (most notably at the Julliard School in Lincoln Center in Feb. of 1998) he was named Music Director of the Austin Philharmonic as of the 1999-2000 season. He has been Principal Guest Conductor of The Contemporary Orchestra Of Cleveland since 1997.

Mr. Waddle holds certificates from Rice University, Cincinnati Conservatory and The University of Texas at Austin where he also served as Assistant Teacher of Bass from 1992 to 1998. Information about Mr. Waddle's upcoming performances as well as a complete bio and list of works is available on his website.

 

Name: Aaron Wajnberg
Skills: Soloist, Teacher, pianist (student at the Antwerp Conservatory )
Phone: 013 55 60 58
Address: Oppum 28, Belgium 3540, Belgium
Links: E-mail
 
Aaron Wajnberg is a student at the Royal Antwerp Conservatory where he studies with Levente Kende and Heidi Hendrickx. At the age of nine he gave a recital for Queen Fabiola in Brussels. He won prizes at the Cantabile , Dexia and Charlier Competition. He took part at masterclasses of E.Mogilevsky , D.Blumenthal and Vitaly Samoshko.

 

Name: Stephen Michael Waterhouse
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +44 (0)1455 636806
Address: 7 Grange Drive, Burbage, Leicestershire LE10 2JR, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
After completing undergraduate training at Huddersfield University, Stephen went on to study at the R.N.C.M specializing in accompaniment. During this time Stephen accompanied a range of song classes and performed string, woodwind, brass, and ealry repertoire on the harpsichord. Stephen graduated with the Post-graduate Diploma in performance, and was awarded the Clifton Helliwell memorial prize for piano.

A year's work experience followed at Wells Cathedral school, playing for instrumentalists and singers. Stephen appeared on regional t.v. and also on Classic FM in a broadcast of the Audi Junior Musician of the Year competition.

Stephen is currently developing his career in the Midlands and London, performing as a soloist and accompanist. Last September he was a finalist in the Birmingham accompanist of the Year competition.

In addition Stephen also works in music theatre as well as with local opera companies as a repetiteur. Stephen recently appeared on BBC radio Leicester, discussing his career to date and performing works by Chopin.

 

Name: Emma Therese Watkinson
Skills: Singer, Soloist
Phone: +44 (0)1747 870 905
Address: 8 Springfield Road SP3 6QN, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Emma graduated with a 2:1 music degree from City University in may 06 with vocal tuition from the guildhall. As a rich mezzo soprano with supreme colour, emma has performed many solo recitals along with oratorio concerts. Her repertoire includes oratorio, opera, lieder, french, italian, english song and contemporary song. She has performed with both New Youth Opera and British Youth Opera. She has also sung in masterclasses with Jane Highfield and Noelle Barker. Prizes include The Young Singers Trophy at Salisbury's Young People's Festival of Music.

 

Name: Tabitha Delwen Watling
Skills: Singer, Soloist
Phone: +44 1843 226120
Address: 4 St Paul's Road,, Margate CT9 2DB, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Tabitha (age 21) comes from Margate, England. In October 1995 she was the winner of the prestigious BBC Radio 2 "Choirgirl of the Year" award, and gained a great deal of experience as a performer, both in the recording studio and on Television and Radio.

In addition, Tabitha has sung at many other Concerts, Church services, weddings and anniversaries throughout the country including such venues as the Wembley Conference Centre, St Martin's in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, Llandaff Cathedral and at International Trade Fairs in Brussels. She first met and sang with British treble star Anthony Way for a BBC programme, and recorded duets with him for his CD "Wings of a Dove" for Decca records. This album shot straight to No 3 in the U.K. Classical "Charts".

She had singing lessons from the age of eight with Pamela Burn in Cliftonville, Tabitha continued her studies reading music at the Welsh College of Music and Drama (Wales' national conservatoire in Cardiff), where she gained the highest mark in her year for the performance examinations. She has represented her College at national level and also in the Cardiff theatres, performing in opera and musicals. She is equally at home singing light music, jazz, oratorio and opera as well as the classical solo repertoire.

In the Spring of 2000 she was selected by Music Theatre Wales to take the part of Adèle in the world premiere of Michael Berkeley’s chamber opera Jane Eyre at the Cheltenham Festival. This production subsequently toured England throughout the summer and autumn, including the Buxton Festival and the Linbury Studio Theatre at Covent Garden Opera HOuse, London (for which she was favourably reviewed in The Times).

 

Name: Sarah Watts
Skills: Player, Soloist (solo bass clarinettist)
Phone: +44 (0)7961 364758
Address: 10 Denby Court, Netherfield, Nottingham NG4 2RJ, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Sarah Watts was born in Nottingham in 1978. She studied clarinet at the Royal Academy of music with Angela Malsbury and bass clarinet with Victoria Soames. Sarah then continued her bass clarinet studies with Henri Bok at the Rotterdam Conservatorium where she was awarded the Exxon Prize for the best classical Musician.

Successes include: Winner, UK Howarth Clarinet Competition, Winner, Hawkes Clarinet Prize (Royal Academy of Music, Winner of wind prize and Finalist in UK Performing Australian Music Competition. Sarah has performed concertos with the Royal Academy of Music Sinfonia and the European Union Youth Wind Orchestra. Sarah has also been awarded funding from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Musician's Benevolent Fund and a Leverhulme Trust study abroad Studentship.

Sarah is a specialist bass clarinettist. She has performed solo bass clarinet music in the UK, Holland and Spain and has had works written for her by Marc Yeats, Alicia Grant, Sungji Hong and Ian Wilson. In January 2003, Sarah performed a concert of solo bass clarinet music in London's Purcell Room as part of the Park Lane Group's Young Artist Series.

 

Name: David James Went
Skills: accompanist, conductor, soloist, teacher (Organ. Piano.)
Phone: +44 (0)20 8944 5816
Address: Flat 4, 269 Magdalen Road, London SW18 3NZ, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
David Went is currently Organist and Music Director of St Margaret's Church in Putney, London. From 1991 to 1995 David was an organ scholar at the Queen's College Oxford where he also studied Classics as an academic exhibitioner. Whilst at Oxford David studied the organ with James Dalton and John Wellingham. He also continued to study the piano with Andrew Ball, professor at the Guildhall College of Music and Drama. On finishing at Oxford, Davd won a scholarship from the Hungarian Government (in conjunction with the British Council) to study piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and studied with amongst others Ferenc Rados.

David has performed as organ accompanist on the BBC World Service and Radio 3. He has also made a commercial recording on compact disc of music by Kenneth Leighton and Herbert Howels with the Queen's College Chapel Choir. David continues to give organ and piano recitals and also does some teaching in the Putney area.

 

Name: Bryce Westervelt
Skills: Singer, Soloist (Tenor soloist available for Opera, Oratorio, Recital, and special events)
Phone: +1 (727) 834 8948
Address: New Port Richey, Florida 34655, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
American tenor, Bryce Westervelt, has sung with professional opera companies, orchestras and choral groups across the United States. He has been characterized as a “light tenor with a charming ease in the stylistic subtleties of early music” Washington Post, having a “delicately nuanced lyric voice” Washington Times, and as being both “vocally seductive and tonally impressive” Monterey Herald.

Mr. Westervelt’s concert repertoire spans over 30 major works including those of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Rossini, Verdi and Dvorak. As concert soloist he has performed with several leading ensembles including the Folger Consort (early music ensemble of the National Shakespeare Library), Washington Bach Consort, Cathedral Choral Society (of the National Cathedral), Albany Pro Musica, Connecticut Choral Artists, Hartford Symphony, Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra, Annapolis Symphony and several other choral and orchestral groups throughout the United States. He has performed in several prestigious venues including the Washington National Cathedral, The National Building Museum, The German Embassy, the Smithsonian, and the Arts Club of Washington.

On the opera stage, his roles include Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Idamante in Idomeneo, and Almaviva in I Barbiere di Siviglia. He has performed with Opera Roanoke, FloriMezzo Opera, Concert Opera of Philadelphia, Summer Opera Theater (Catholic University), the 20th Century Consort (Smithsonian Institute), the Washington Savoyards, and the Maryland Opera Studio.

Mr. Westervelt was a finalist in the 2000 Bethlehem Bach Festival Competition and received the prestigious Virginia Best Adams Fellowship at the Carmel Bach Festival in 2000. Mr. Westervelt was a member of the Berkshire Opera Young Artist Development program and spent two summers as a member of the Brevard Music Center Opera Workshop. He holds a Master of Music in Opera Performance from the University of Maryland where he was a student of François Loup and a Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of Georgia, where he was a student of Gregory Broughton.In 2006/07, Mr. Westervelt’s exciting season includes debuts in the Central Florida Bach Festival in Handel’s Saul and with the Canterbury Choral Society in Oklahoma City as the tenor soloist in Dave Brubeck’s oratorio To Hope! He also has return engagements with the Washington Bach Consort in a staged performance of Bach’s Drama per Musica BWV 205, Lake Wales Chorale in Vaughan Williams’ Hodie, and as the featured soloist in Howard Blake’s Benedictus with the Southwest Florida Symphony, among others. More information can be found at www.brycewestervelt.com.

 

Name: Paul Whelan
Skills: singer, soloist (Baritone)
Links: Website     

 

Name: Marguerite Lynn Williams
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher, Harp
Phone: +1 (773) 791 7520
Address: Chicago, IL 60613, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Harp lessons can begin at any age. Marguerite is currently accepting new students of all ages and level of ability on both the pedal and lever harps. Please contact her at 773-791-7520 or marguerite@mlwharp.com to inquire about available lesson times and rates. Along with being an active performer, Marguerite is very passionate about teaching. She is currently the harp teacher for the People's Music School in Chicago, IL; adjunct harp professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI; chamber music coach for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra; harp coach for both the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Youth Concert Orchestra; as well as has an active private studio. Her students have been awarded full-tuition scholarships to Northern Illinois University to study with Liz Cifani, Principal Harp of the Lyric Opera; performance scholarships to the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, as well as attended master classes with Indiana University Harp professor Susan McDonald. Currently, she has students headed towards the American Harp Society national competitions.

 

Name: Mark Wilson
Skills: Soloist (Violin)
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Mark Wilson comes from a musical family: his violinist grandmother was one of the first women members of the Philharmonia orchestra whilst his mother played violin with the Bournemouth and BBC Scottish orchestras. Mark's father was a fine accordionist who helped foster his son's love of folk and salon music.

Mark studied at the RSAMD and the RAM under three distinguished professors: Frances Mason, Miles Baster and Maurice Hasson. On graduating from RAM, Mark co-founded the Solaris Quartet with whom he played first violin for the next eight years. Mark then accepted an invitation to become the concertmaster of the Orquestra de Camara do Estado de Mato Grosso in Brazil and went on to give several concerto appearances with the ensemble as well as featuring on the orchestra's D.V.D. releases. Mark toured extensively throughout Brazil and Bolivia during his time with the orchestra yet perhaps the most rewarding part of the experience (along with learning Portuguese) was the work he put in developing the playing of the many talented young musicians in the orchestra's home city of Cuiabá.

Mark is now back in the UK and is in high demand as a freelance player (since Mark's return to the UK in January 2008, he's freelanced with, amongst others, the RTE Concert Orchestra and the Scottish Ballet Orchestra), chamber musician and a soloist.

 

Name: Daniel Wnukowski
Skills: Soloist (Concert Pianist)
Phone: +1 (619) 819 5518
Links: Website     E-mail
 
The Canadian-born piano virtuoso Daniel Wnukowski, pronounced ('Vnoo-koff-skee'), invariably amazes audiences from many parts of the globe with his energetic and outstanding musical interpretations and his extraordinary technical ability.

Daniel Wnukowski has won numerous performance awards and prizes enabling him to perform all over Europe and North America as a solo recitalist in many prestigious concert halls including the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland, the Concertgebouw Music Hall in Amsterdam, Holland, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, France, and the Stadt Casino in Basel, Switzerland and the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki Zdroj, Poland.

 

Name: Jacky Ho Tung Wong
Skills: Accompanist, Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher (Artistic Director and Conductor of Hornton Chamber Orchestra)
Phone: +44 (0)7472 748040
Address: 54 Hornton Street, London W8 4NT, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Born in Hong Kong in 1994, Jacky began learning his piano studies at the age of five and violin studies at eight. After his studies at Diocesan Boys' School in Hong Kong, he attended Harrow School for Sixth Form studies. Jacky is now on his third year of undergraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music with an entrance scholarship, studying violin with Rodney Friend, piano with Amandine Savary, and viola with James Sleigh. He has attended masterclasses held by various artists including Maxim Vengerov, Tasmin Little, So-ock Kim, Feng Ning and Erich Gruenburg. For conducting, he has been mentored by opera conductor and vocal coach Peter Robinson, as well as conductor John Landor. Jacky has also been interested in the roles of Opera Repetiteur, most recently appeared at Opera de Bauge as Repetiteur for Cosi fan tutte in summer 2015. Jacky founded Hornton Chamber Orchestra in early January 2015, and has given three concerts throughout the year appearing as conductor as well as soloists for Mozart's Violin Concerto No.4 and Piano Concerto No.20.

Jacky's major achievements in competitions include Third Prize in the Pancho Vladigerov International Violin Competition held in Bulgaria in 2013, First Prize in the Youth Category of Hong Kong International Violin Competition in 2011. He has served as Concertmaster and Second Violins' Principal of the Asian Youth Orchestra, performing with renowned international artists including cellist Steven Isserlis, violinist Stefan Jackiw and conductors Richard Pontzious and James Judd. Jacky has also taken part in the co-principal Bursary Scheme of the Rehearsal Orchestra and the LSO String Academy. Jacky has performed in various concert venues in London and Hong Kong, most recently violin lunchtime recitals at St. Martin in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square and Southwark Cathedral, as part of the Royal Academy of Music series.

Jacky held the position of Concertmaster of the Duet Philharmonic Orchestra, a joint high-school project in England, performing Mahler's 8th Symphony in the Royal Festival Hall in March 2013. Jacky is the leader of Ardour String Quartet, formed in 2014 and has seen performances around London. Recently, Jacky has also been appointed as Director of Music and Organist at St. George's Church, Bickley, after serving as Church Organist and Choir Master at St Helen's Church, Wheathampstead since May 2014. He is very grateful for the support of the Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust, and for being awarded the Eta Cohen Memorial Award for the support of his studies in London. Jacky is now playing a Postacchini Violin on loaned by Royal Academy of Music.

 

Name: See Siang Wong
Skills: Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +41 76 396 69 88
Address: Hofackerstrasse 14 , Zurich 8032, Switzerland
Links: Website     E-mail
 
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung described the Dutch-born pianist, See Siang Wong, as a “subtle painter of sound”. He has been awarded numerous prizes and has quickly advanced to become an internationally sought soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. See Siang Wong studied with Marjès Benoist in Holland and with Homero Francesch and Bruno Canino in Switzerland. He pursued further studies in accompaniment with Irwin Gage, Hans Adolfsen and Daniel Fueter and also studied Contemporary music with the composer Felix Baumann. He makes his home in Switzerland today.

He made his debut at the age of twelve with the Dutch Radio Orchestra. He has since performed in numerous renowned venues in over 20 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Central and South America, including Tonhalle Zürich, KKL Lucerne, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, St. Martin in the Fields London, Salle Olivier Messiaen Paris, Bertramka Prague, Marble Hall Budapest, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall and many more. He also makes regular guest appearances at leading international music festivals. Among the highlights of his artistic career have been concerts with top-ranking conductors, including Pierre Boulez, Ralf Weikert and Howard Griffiths. His interest in contemporary music has led to collaborations with leading composers, such as Emmanuel Nunes, Marco Stroppa, James Dillon and Rudolf Kelterborn.

See Siang Wong's performances have been recorded by many radio and television stations. He has already made three exclusive solo albums for DECCA. His first CD featuring music from Chopin (“Waltzes and Nocturnes”) was released in 2005 and was honored with a “Classic Highlight” award in the Swiss Radio Magazine. His second CD with piano pieces from Claude Debussy, entitled “Early Piano Works”, was released in 2006 and also received high praise from the specialist press. In 2008 he recorded his latest album, dedicated to the Piano Sonatas of Mozart. Other recordings were issued by Deutsche Grammophon, Guild, Novalis, ZHDK Records, Liverpool Records and Rose.

See Siang Wong has taught since 2002 at the Zurich University of the Arts. He holds Masterclasses within Switzerland and abroad, and is among the exclusive circle of Steinway & Sons Artists.

 

Name: Ali Wood
Skills: Soloist
Phone: +61 412 912 269
Address: Australia
Links: Website     E-mail
 
This site is all about classical crossover pianist and entertainer Ali Wood. You'll find lots of interesting things here, and we'll keep you up to date with all the latest news about Ali.

Born in Brisbane, Australia, Ali now resides permanently in Los Angeles ... with her cat! Ali's charm and magnetism have made her popular with audiences all over the world ... she always shares her anecdotes in the native language of the country she is visiting.

Ali combines her love of theater with her love of music. An explosion of music, lighting and special effects. A spectacular extravaganza featuring the world's most famous music. One of the most exciting musical events you will ever experience.

From Carnegie Hall to Las Vegas, the world has been Ali's stage since she began touring at 17 years of age. She has played to packed houses in 24 countries on 6 continents ... only Antarctica to go!

 

Name: David Sebastain Wright
Skills: Accompanist, Conductor, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Tuning and maintenance (Supplier and tuner of instruments (chamber organ and harpsichord) for concerts and recordings.)
Phone: +44 (0)7941 093 066
Address: 11 Wren House, Gernon Road, Bow, London, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
Born in Bethnal Green in the East End of London, David Wright received no musical training as a child. His interest in music began after the death of his father when he was nine, through subsequent involvement in the local church. It was there he discovered the piano and organ and taught himself to play ‘by ear’, nurturing a love of the music of Bach and Mozart. At the age of sixteen he had his first piano lesson and learned to read music, later going on to study harpsichord at Trinity College of Music, where he won the Ella kidney prize for early music and graduated with honours.

David later graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Music in 2003 where for two consecutive years he won the Richard the Third and Century Fund Prizes. In 2003 he also won first prize in the prestigious Broadwood Harpsichord Competition, an international event held at London’s Fenton House where he became artist in residence. As a soloist and accompanist David works regularly with some of the world’s leading ensembles and musicians. He has directed concerts from the harpsichord including the first modern performance of Thomas Arne’s ballad opera ‘The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green’. David is engaged regularly amongst the artists at Dartington International Summer School and as repetitieur with the English Touring Opera and The English Bach Festival. David’s radio and television broadcasts include performances as a finalist in the York Early Music Competition and solos at the Handel House Museum London (both for BBC Radio3) and more recently a recital as part of the Belfast Music Festival, broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland. Just recently, David was assistant musical director to Jean-Claude Malgoire in a production of Rameau’s Platee at the Megaron in Athens with the English Bach Festival, with whom he will be performing Monteverdi’s l’Orfeo in the New Year.

During 2006, much of David’s time has been devoted to The Goldberg Variations which he has performed extensively though out the UK and abroad. He is planning to record them in 2007. Future live performances include: Chelsea Arts Festival on the 11th of March 07, St Martin-in-the-Fields on the 1st of May 07, Dartington International Summer School in July-August 07 and Handel House Museum on the 23rd of August 07.

 

Name: Roger Wright
Skills: Accompanist, Composer, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Pianist (Concert Pianist)
Phone: +1 (323) 933 1693
Fax: +1 (323) 933 1634
Address: United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
The Washington Post has called Mr. Wright “a major pianist” and his work “a gorgeous display of effortlessly flowing melody, rhapsodic bravura and electrifying passagework….freshly conceived and spontaneous.”

Mr. Wright gained international attention when he won the 24th Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition in New York City, which led to his debut at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. His international reputation was further enhanced when he was eliminated from the finals of the 2000 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia.

The decision of the jury precipitated mass protests from listeners who followed the competition via national radio broadcast and worldwide web cast. In response to this unprecedented outpouring of support, the ABC, the competition's principal sponsor, marketed a debut recording of Wright's performances at the competition. His recording of Between Five Bells from this CD earned composer Peter Sculthorpe the Australian Performing Rights Association's (APRA) Award for the Most Performed Contemporary Classical Composition of 2001. From Australia, he returned to North America where he was a finalist at the 3rd Esther Honens International Piano Competition in Canada and the Audience Favorite at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth. Most recently, he won the gold medal at the San Antonio International Piano Competition and the awards for Best Performance of the Commissioned Piece and Best Performance of a Romantic Work.

Mr. Wright has been performing to the acclaim of audiences worldwide since his debut with the Houston Symphony at the age of eighteen. Recent performances include recitals in Charleston (SC), Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York, San Antonio and San Diego. His performances have been broadcast on ABC Australia, CBC Radio Canada, 105.1 K-Mozart in Los Angeles, WFMT-FM Chicago, WQXR in New York City, and on David Dubal's celebrated series Reflections from the Keyboard. A versatile performer, Wright savors the opportunity to play with chamber groups and ensembles and collaborates frequently with Camerata San Antonio, a group comprised of outstanding string players from the San Antonio Symphony. He has also toured in the United States and Germany with Hudson Shad, the celebrated Comedian Harmonists

 

 


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