LAWRENCE WRIGHT, trumpet

 received his BA from Denison University and his Masters Degree from Juilliard. He is principal trumpet and soloist of the Bethlehem Bach Festival Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, the Allentown Symphony, and co-principal trumpet of the renowned Philadelphia Brass. Larry has performed with the New York Metropolitan Opera, the New Jersey Symphony, the Caramoor Festival, the Italian Spoleto Festival, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia . He has appeared as soloist with the Schuylkill Symphony, the Allentown Band, the Mexican State Orchestra, and with artists Arleen Auger, Sylvia McNair, Emanuel Ax and Menahem Pressler. In 2005 he was awarded the Performer Ovation Award by the Allentown Arts Commission, and teaches privately and at both 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.