Adam Wright

Trumpet

Member since 2024

My parents made me take up the recorder aged seven. When I threw that in the bin a year later they finally allowed me to play the trumpet! My dad used to work with a lot of brass players when I was growing up, and going to concerts and listening to them play made me want to do it for a career.

Before joining the LSO, Adam Wright was Sub-Principal Trumpet of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 2006 to 2024, and second trumpet with the London Chamber Orchestra, with whom he played at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011. In addition, Adam plays as a guest with many UK orchestras and ensembles and has recorded soundtracks such as Harry Potter, Spiderman and Wallace and Gromit. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed throughout the UK and Europe in venues such as Wigmore Hall, King’s College Cambridge, the Elbphilharmonie and Madrid Cathedral, with artists including Alison Balsom and John Wallace.

Alongside his playing career, Adam was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for six years, and teaches the trumpet at Trinity School, Croydon. He has given classes at the Royal College or Music, Trinity Laban, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, as well as at various universities in the US and Europe.

Having studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1996 to 2000, Adam graduated with a First Class Honours degree. In 2007 he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of his success within the profession.

Listen To

‘Mahler’s Symphony No 5 is a fantastic orchestral work, and if I had to pick, my favourite piece of orchestral music.’