Lawrence Wright is principal trumpet of the Allentown Symphony, Bethlehem Bach Festival Orchestra, Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra and Pennsylvania Sinfonia. He earned his BA, Phi Beta Kappa, from Denison University and his Masters from Juilliard where he was a student of William Vacchiano. Larry has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, the New Jersey Symphony, the Italian Spoleto Festival, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and has appeared as soloist with artists Sylvia McNair, Emanuel Ax and Menahem Pressler. He was featured in the PBS broadcast of Stravinsky's L'histoire du Soldat and as soloist in several recordings of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, including Christmas Oratorio. The Allentown Arts Commission awarded Larry and his wife, flutist Robin Kani the Performer Ovation Award for "outstanding achievement in the performing arts".  A dedicated teacher, he serves on the faculties of Moravian College and Lehigh University.  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.

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