Dave Wright and The Band Of Opportunity

Dave Wright: Guitar

In the course of his career, guitarist-composer Dave Wright has played gigs at venues from the US West Coast to Western Europe. Some musical accomplishments include more than 300 shows at Radio City Music Hall as house guitarist with the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra; many shows with performers such as the Fifth Dimension, Diahann Carroll, Charo and Frank Sinatra Jr.; performing with the Rochester Philharmonic Pops for artists including Patti Page; recording on albums and industrial recording sessions; performing with many of western New York’s most talented musicians, including four years with Prime Time Funk, various dates with the Bill Tiberio Group and others.

Dave has recorded a number of original albums, the most recent of which is Dave Wright and The Band Of Opportunity’s “Aurora Borealis”, available on this website, Spotify, and other major resellers.

Dave studied jazz guitar with Gene Bertoncini (alum of Wayne Shorter, Hubert Laws, Clark Terry, Paul Desmond), Randall Dollohan (alum of Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Turrentine, Edgar Winter, Steve Morse) and Tom Rizzo (alum of Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinsen), and attended the Studio Jazz Program at the University of Miami, Coral Gables.

Dave is the son of Rayburn Wright, award-winning composer, arranger and jazz educator (as head of Eastman School of Music’s Jazz and Contemporary Media Department). While growing up, Dave was lucky enough to spend time around the many musicians his father worked with, for example Keith Jarrett, Toots Thielemans, Dave Brubeck, Nigerian drummer Olatunji, and Henry Mancini.

Dave is also the son of the talented artist Doris B. Wright. With an artist for a mother and a musician for a father, Dave grew up in a home where writing a song or creating art was a normal and consistent activity, and this had a deep effect on his life. When Dave is not at home, he is often traveling to beautiful and exotic places around the world, usually with a guitar and a big camera in hand.