A Governor-General’s Gold Medal winner with a Ph.D. from McGill University, his scholarly contributions include two books on the life and work of Arnold Schoenberg. In addition to Schoenberg studies, Dr. Wright’s research interests encompass music philosophy and aesthetics, performance studies, music perception, post-tonal theory and analysis, twentieth-century music history, Glenn Gould Canadian film music, music and ludology, and the history of music theory. He is also known as a composer of vocal and choral music whose published works have been performed and recorded by choirs throughout North America