Christopher Wright (composer)

Christopher Wright (30 April 1954 – 4 December 2024) was a British music teacher and composer. He described the style of his own music as “largely tonal with atonal flavourings”. Others have noted an English pastoral sensibility and the influence of William Walton. Life and career Wright was born in Ipswich, Suffolk He went on to study composition at the Colchester Institute with Richard Arnell and Alan Bullard. While in Colchester he also first made friends with fellow student and East Anglian composer Nicholas Barton. He took further composition lessons with Stanley Glasser at Goldsmiths College and with Nicholas Sackman at the University of Nottingham. But in 1993 illness forced him to retire from teaching and he became a full-time composer. Ruth Wright died of cancer in 2009. Christopher Wright died of pneumonia on 4 December 2024, following a long decline resulting from dementia. His music has been recorded on the Cameo, Dutton Epoch, Divine Art/Metier, Lyrita, Merlin Classics and Toccata labels. Music Wright’s 2010 Violin Concerto was written in memory of his wife and recorded by Fenella Humphreys. He also composed an Oboe Concerto for Jonathan Small, a Horn Concerto for Rich