A native of Bolton, MA, trombonist Bron Wright currently serves as Principal Trombone with both the Charleston Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, as well as 2nd Trombone with the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado. He has toured and performed on numerous occasions with such orchestras as the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Robert Spano, James Conlin, and Sir Neville Marriner; the Boston Pops Orchestra under John Williams, Keith Lockhart and Harry Ellis Dickson; and the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson-Thomas giving performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in Rome, Italy and Berio’s Sinfonia in Carnegie Hall. He has received fellowships with such festivals as the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan; the American Russian Artists Orchestra in Russia; the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria; and the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA. As a soloist, Bron has toured to over 35 countries including China, South Africa, Egypt, Poland, Germany, Russia, Denmark, and Thailand. In 1993, he was selected to perform Ferdinand David’s Concertino for Queen Noor and King Hussein at the Jerash International Music Festival in Amman, Jordan.

An avid supporter of new music, Bron has commissioned nearly a dozen works for solo trombone, brass quintet and voice. As founder of the Huntington Brass Quintet, Bron has received numerous grants from Chamber Music America, The American Composer’s Forum, The National Endowment for the Arts and has been featured on National Public Radio. He has conducted master classes and seminars on such topics as “Arts Management” and “Performance Anxiety” at The New England Conservatory of Music, The University of Maryland, Longy School of Music, and The University of Texas. In August of 2005 Bron was invited by conductor Yutaka Sado and the Leonard Bernstein Foundation to perform in Japan for the 60th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.

Bron received his Bachelors Degree in 2001 from the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with both Norman Bolter and Douglas Yeo of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In addition to music, Bron likes to spend his free-time snowcat and heli-skiing during the winter months and cycling during the rest of the year. His current goals for 2007 include cycling every mountain pass in Colorado as well as organizing a 105-mile race from Colorado Springs to Breckenridge during the summer of 2008 with proceeds going to support the arts.