Guy works closely with LSO musicians, staff, and the Board of Directors to fulfill the Symphony’s goals of artistic excellence, community engagement and educational outreach.

Guy joined the LSO Staff from the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. While at the MSO he oversaw a successful digital transformation, updated marketing campaigns and a strong focus on public relations, all of which were credited to the Symphony’s record sales for their 2019-2020 season.

Originally a member of Lancaster Symphony’s trumpet section, Guy uses his experience as a professional musician to be a proponent of making classical arts accessible for all, and to redefine what a professional symphony orchestra should mean to its community.

Guy holds a Bachelor of Music Performance from the Royal Academy of Music in London. As a musician he has performed with the London Sinfonietta, Baltimore Symphony, Lancaster Symphony, Reading Symphony, Kennett Symphony, Maryland Lyric Opera, Washington Opera Society, Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Williamsburg Symphony, and countless other performing arts organizations around the region.

In his spare time, Guy enjoys experiencing Lancaster’s incredible restaurant scene with his partner StephJo Wise, taking day trips around Lancaster County with StephJo and her son Hugo, and cooking at their home in Lancaster City.

Her background includes over a decade in music retail management and previous roles with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. A passionate advocate for community engagement through the arts, Melinda also serves as Board Secretary for the Women’s Symphony Association. She holds a B.A. in Music Business and Technologies, with a concentration in saxophone, from Millersville University.

Currently, he applies that foundation to lead donor relations, corporate sponsorships, and community engagement, strengthening the orchestra’s impact in Lancaster. Outside of work, Robert enjoys hitting the golf course, restoring his old Volkswagen Truck, or unwinding at home with his wife,  and their three cats—Binks, Dale, and Billie.

Dr. Wright has performed collaboratively with numerous music ensembles, including the Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Boston Philharmonic, the Boston Civic Symphony, the Boston Opera Company, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony, the Greensboro Symphony, the New Hampshire Symphony, the New Haven Symphony, the Reading Symphony, the York Symphony, the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, the Newton Symphony, the Cambridge Symphony, and the Allegro Orchestra. On tour, Dr. Wright has performed in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, French Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Spain, Monaco, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Turkey, Austria, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, France, Pakistan, Nepal, and The Netherlands.

As a member of the original cast of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass (a theatre piece), Dr. Wright sang and acted in eighteen performances of the piece under Bernstein’s direction, for the inauguration of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

A native of Boston, Dr. Wright received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, where he received the Lincoln Lowell Russell Prize for music performance, and the Edward Poole Lay Fellowship. He earned a Master of Music degree in piano performance from The New England Conservatory, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was awarded the Charles Hayes Fellowship.

In addition to his work with the Lancaster Symphony, Dr. Wright holds the position of Resident Conductor with the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, serves on the music faculty at Franklin & Marshall College, and works as Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church in Lancaster. He has been a faculty member at Harvard University Summer School, Tufts University, Clark University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, and the International School of Islamabad, Pakistan.