Gavyn Wright

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Gavyn Wright
OriginEngland
Occupations
  • Violinist
  • orchestra leader
Instruments

Gavyn Wright is a British violinist and orchestra leader with the London Session Orchestra and Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

He is best known for his orchestral arrangements on pop productions (including Elton John, Simply Red, Bush, Mecano, Oasis, Gordon Haskell, Donna Lewis, Tina Turner, Italian singer-songwriter Alice, Lucio Battisti, Van Morrison) as well as numerous TV and movie soundtracks (including Shrek 1 and 2, The Constant Gardener , Stuart Little , Spider-Man , Thunderbirds , Batman Begins , The Black Dahlia , Shakespeare in Love , 12 Monkeys , The Last Emperor , We Were Soldiers , Shall We Dance? ).

Wright's brother was the late actor Adrian Wright.

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

In 1973, he joined Simon Jeffes project Penguin Cafe Orchestra, he worked on the first three albums of the orchestra, Music from the Penguin Cafe , Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Broadcasting From Home , after leaving the group in 1985.


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