Martin Wright's musical career has taken him all over the world, performing in over 20 countries as vocalist, pianist, conductor, coach, chorus master, teacher and adjudicator. In taking over directorship of the San Diego Master Chorale in 2002, Wright returned to assume a leadership position in San Diego's choral music scene. As Chorus Master at San Diego Opera for thirteen years, from 1984 to 1997, Wright received critical praise for numerous productions. During that same time, he served one summer on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West, in Santa Barbara, and twice did chorus preparations for the Los Angeles Music Center Opera in productions of Otello and Les Contes d'Hoffmann, both starring Placido Domingo. For five years, he was also Director of Music at La Jolla Presbyterian Church.

From 1993 to 2002, Wright was Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Choir in Amsterdam, collaborating with many of Europe's greatest orchestras, and such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Simon Rattle, Edo de Waart, Kenneth Montgomery, Bernard Haitink, John Eliot Gardiner, Colin Davis, and Valery Gergiev. His work with that choir is documented in a number of CD recordings, and he returns to Europe frequently as guest conductor for a number of professional choirs and opera companies.

A San Diego resident, Wright has continued to play a major role in local productions. As Principal Guest Conductor for Lyric Opera, San Diego (formerly San Diego Comic Opera), he has conducted highly-praised productions of Candide, The Barber of Seville, The Abduction from the Seraglio and Die Fledermaus. In 2006, he will conduct La Cenerentola for that company, in their new home: the newly refurbished North Park Theater.

In October 2001, Wright conducted a performance of Mendelssohn's oratorio St. Paul for PACEM, the Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music, at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in San Diego. Writing of that performance, The Reader's classical music critic Jonathan Saville cited Wright for his "authoritative direction" and "polished and powerful reading." Saville praised Wright as "a musician very much in the tradition of the late Robert Shaw: an expert in choral music, yet at the same time an all-round conductor of deep musical understanding. He conducted St. Paul with intense conviction, as though it were the greatest oratorio in the world."

Martin Wright has also been active as a conductor for Nevada Opera in Reno, Nevada, leading productions of Don Giovanni, La Traviata, Carmen and Die Fledermaus.

Winner of 10 district and regional vocal competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Wright has sung over 35 operatic roles, and has appeared in classical and pops concerts with many major symphonies, both in the United States and in Europe. Before taking the helm at the San Diego Master Chorale, he performed with them many times as baritone soloist, most recently in performances of the Mozart Requiem with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra.

Born and raised in Idaho, Wright holds degrees in music from the University of Arizona and from Brigham Young University, where his choral mentors included Ralph Woodward, John Halliday and Clayne Robison.