Barbara Wright

Barbara Wright is a violist who plays both modern and baroque viola. She is a member of Boston Baroque, performing in Boston as well as Poland, Puerto Rico and at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. As a long time member of the Handel and Haydn Society orchestra, she performed with conductors Christopher Hogwood and Grant Lewellyn, and traveled with the orchestra to the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland and to the Proms in London where the group performed with Roger Norrington conducting.

She plays with the Arcadia Players, a period instrument group in Western Massachusetts.

Barbara also plays with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and various groups in Boston. She played for many years in the New England Bach Festival in Brattleboro, VT.

Barbara received a B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College, a M.M. from University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and also studied at the Mannes School in New York. Her teachers included Philipp Naegele, Janet Hill and Karen Tuttle.

She teaches viola students at Mt Holyoke College.