Roger Wright has won first place in several competitions,
resulting in appearances with orchestras including the Houston Symphony,
Midland-Odessa Symphony, Woodlands Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Richardson
Symphony, and Texas Music Festival Orchestra. He also captured grand
prizes at the Oklahoma City Young Artists' Concerto Competition, the
Houston Tuesday Musical Club Competition, the Texas Music Teacher's
Association State Competition, the Corpus Christi Young Artist
Competition, and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition. He
won second prize at the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate
Piano Competition in Kansas City and the Elizabeth Harper Vaughn Concerto
Competition in Kingsport, Tennessee. In October, 1997, he won second prize
and the award for best performance of the commissioned work at the San
Antonio International Piano Competition.
Mr. Wright has been a featured recitalist at the Shreveport Summer
Music Festival and recently performed in Charleston, South Carolina at the
invitation of the College of Charleston School of the Arts. He can be
heard frequently as a soloist for the Texas A&M Brown Bag Concert, a live
radio broadcast.
A native of Houston, Texas, Roger Wright graduated Magna cum laude from
the University of Houston where he studied with Abbey Simon, Ruth
Tomfohrde, and Horatio Gutierrez. Mr. Wright is pursuing his master's
degree with John Perry at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music.
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