Roger Wright (other)
Roger Wright may refer to: * Roger Wright (music administrator) (born 1956), British music administrator * Roger Wright (pianist) (born 1974), American pianist *Roger Wright (speedway rider) (born 1945), New Zealand motorcycle racer See also *Rogers H. Wright Rogers Hornsby Wright (January 27, 1927 – March 31, 2013) was an American psychologist and writer. He was known as the "Father of Professional Psychology" for his work aimed at improving the recognition of professional psychology as a psycholo ...

Roger Wright (music Administrator)
Roger William Wright CBE (born 15 August 1956, in Manchester) is an English arts administrator. He is currently the Chief Executive of Britten Pears Arts. Wright was educated at Chetham's School of Music, Manchester, and played the cello as a youth. He studied music at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and earned a B.Mus. in 1977. On graduation, he took a sabbatical year, 1977–78, as the elected President of the Student Union. From 1978 to 1986, Wright worked at the British Music Information Centre (BMIC), as librarian and manager, then as director. He served as a senior producer for the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989. He became the artistic administrator of The Cleveland Orchestra in 1989. He left his Cleveland post in 1992 for Deutsche Grammophon (DG), where he became an executive director and vice-president, and worked there until 1997. In March 1997, Wright took up the newly created BBC post of Head of Classical Music, in charge of the BBC's orche ...
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Roger Wright (pianist)
Roger Robinson ("Trey") Wright III (born April 1, 1974Harris County, Texasbirths database/ref>) is an American classical concert pianist. He is also a Scrabble player who won the United States National Scrabble Championship in 2004. Early life and musical training Roger Wright was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Roger Wright, Jr., and Christy (Schmidt ) Wright. He began piano study at age 12. During high school he studied with Houston teacher John Weems. At 18 Wright made his concerto debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Wright entered the piano program at the University of Houston, where he continued his studies with Nancy Weems, Ruth Tomfohrde, Abbey Simon, and Horacio Gutiérrez, and earned his Bachelor of Music degree. During this time he won second prize in the 1996 (U.S.) Music Teachers National Association Piano Competition, College Division. Wright remained in Houston for graduate study, earning his Master of Music degree as a student of John Perry at Ri ...
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Roger Wright (speedway Rider)
Roger Wright (born 8 January 1945) is a former Motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ... rider from New Zealand. Career Wright began riding in 1963 at the age of 19 at the Templeton track in Christchurch. His first success was winning the South Island Championship during the 1966-1967 season. In 1969 he went to the UK to ride for the Rayleigh Rockets in the British League Division Two. He had a good debut season but returned home and stayed in Christchurch for the next two years. In 1972 after winning the South Island Championship again and finishing second in the New Zealand Speedway Championship he was offered a place in the Hackney Hawks division one team. He lost his place in this team early in the season but was loaned out to the second di ...
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