REGINAL S. WRIGHT
Reginal Wright is a composer, conductor, and educator with a 26-year career in choral music, including more than 20 years in public school education. His dedication to teaching has earned numerous accolades, including the Outstanding Teacher Award, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and Secondary Teacher of the Year honors from both Mansfield High School and Mansfield ISD in 2018.
Reginal’s musical journey has taken him across Europe and the United States, where he has performed and conducted with great acclaim. He is a sought-after clinician for middle and high school choirs, frequently leading honor choirs nationwide, including all-state choirs in Alaska, Oregon, Arkansas, and New Mexico. As a conductor, his choirs consistently achieved top honors, including sweepstakes in concert and sight-reading contests, and were regularly recognized with “Outstanding in Class” awards at state and national music festivals.
As a composer, Reginal writes for choirs of all levels, from middle school to professional ensembles. His works have been showcased by All-State Choirs and at prestigious conventions. His piece “Invictus” was featured at the 2021 ACDA National Convention and performed by the 2022 Texas All-State Tenor-Bass Choir. “Where Are the Bodies” and “Opportunity” were both featured at Carnegie Hall, the former in collaboration with the Turtle Creek Chorale and the latter performed in 2023 by the Tomball Memorial High School Choir. His commissions include “By the Sea” for the Children’s Choir of Greater Dallas and a work for the Yale Glee Club’s Next Works Initiative, and “We Are the Music Makers” appears in The Oxford Book of Choral Music by Black Composers.
His compositions are published by BriLee, Carl Fischer, Graphite, Hal Leonard, Oxford University Press, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, MorningStar, Walton Choral Music, and his own Reginal Wright Music.
Reginal holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a minor in music and a Master of Arts in Music Education from Stephen F. Austin State University, and is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts in choral conducting at Texas Tech University. As head choral director at Mansfield High School, he led the Varsity Treble Choir to invited performances at the SW-ACDA Convention in 2012 and 2022 and the ACDA National Convention in 2023, and the Varsity Tenor-Bass Choir to a Texas Music Educators Association invited performance in 2018.
Reginal is a lecturer in choral music at Baylor University, where he conducts the Women’s Choir and directs VirtuOSO, an ICCA-finalist a cappella ensemble. In 2026–2027 he serves as a doctoral teaching fellow at Texas Tech, where he conducts the Caprock Jazz Choir. He lives in Arlington, Texas, with his wife, Renetta, their son, Gabrien, daughter, Reece, and their beloved Yorkie, Cooper.