About John Wright

Mr. Wright studied trombone with Derl Sanderson, the principal trombonist of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra as well as with John Driver, the bass trombonist of the same organization from 1980-82.  He graduated from East Carolina University with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Music Education in 1988. In 1992, he started the band program at Northwood Temple Academy located in Fayetteville. He has served as the orchestra director at Northwood Temple Church for 18 years and the minister of music at Lebanon Baptist Church for 6 years.  He still attends Lebanon Baptist, but in 2020, he stepped down from the minister of music position to write The Wright Band Method which he and others have been using since then. Mr. Wright has also written over 600 compositions for band and orchestra.