Keri-Lynn Wilson

Conductor

Keri-Lynn Wilson divides her conducting career between symphony orchestras and opera.
In the upcoming seasons, Ms. Wilson will be making her debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Münich (La traviata), Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv (La bohème), the Washington Opera (Turandot), L'Opéra de Montréal (La fanciulla del West). Ms. Wilson returned to the Vienna Staatsoper with La traviata and Tosca. At the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow Ms. Wilson just conducted Tosca and returned there with La bohème.

Ms. Wilson's upcoming symphonic engagements include the Aachen Symphony, the RAI Symphony, the orchestra of the Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana.

In recent seasons, Ms. Wilson has conducted the Montreal Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the St. Louis Symphony. She has conducted La Rondine at the Los Angeles Opera, Anna Bolena at the Bilbao Opera, Don Pasquale at the Palermo Opera, Madama Butterfly in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra; La bohème, Turandot and Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival; Rigoletto with the Toscanini Foundation Orchestra in various Italian theaters; Tosca at the Vienna Staatsoper; La bohème at the Bilbao Opera and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow; Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Maggio Musicale in Florence; La bohème and Madama Butterfly at the Kirov Opera; La Cenerentola in Trieste; Werther with Marcelo Alvarez at the Bari Opera; Manon Lescaut with the National Opera of Ukraine; and Madama Butterfly at the Arena di Verona.

Since starting her career as an international guest conductor, Ms. Wilson has conducted opera productions throughout the world, including Rome (Aida), Nice (Tosca, Otello), Torino (Lucia di Lammermoor), Rotterdam (Norma), Verona (Lucia di Lammermoor, Tosca, La Vedova Allegra), and Ancona (Lucia di Lammermoor), and symphony orchestras in San Francisco, Ravinia, Iceland, St. Paul, Cincinnati, Houston, Seattle, Vancouver, Buffalo, New Jersey, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Moscow, Riga, Kyiv, Leipzig, Florence, Athens and the Netherlands. Ms. Wilson also recorded "Danzon," a CD of Latin American compositions for Dorian Records, with the Simуn Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela.

A native of Winnipeg, Canada, Ms. Wilson began her musical studies with the piano at the age of three, violin at age five, and flute at age eight. She holds masters degrees both in conducting and flute from the Juilliard School of Music. As a flutist she studied with the renowned Julius Baker and made her Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 21. As a conductor she was awarded a Bruno Walter Fellowship and studied under Otto-Werner Mueller. She made her conducting debut with the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada in 1990 at the age of 23. While still in school, she worked as an assistant to Claudio Abbado at the Salzburg Festival. She was also a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and from 1994-98 served as Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.