Keri-Lynn Wilson, conductor
Keri-Lynn Wilson divides her conducting career between symphony orchestras and opera. In the 2005/2006 season, Ms. Wilson makes debuts at the Kirov Opera in St. Petersberg, conducting La Bohème and Madama Butterfly; at the Trieste Opera, with La Cenerentola; at the Bari Opera, conducting a new production of Werther with Marcelo Alvarez in the title role; and at the Ukranian National Opera with Turandot. Also this season, Ms. Wilson returns to the Rome Opera to conduct La Clemenza Di Tito; to the Arena Di Verona with Madama Butterfly; and to the Puccini Festival in Torre Del Lago with La Bohème.

Ms. Wilson’s symphonic engagements in the 2005/2006 season include the Rai Symphony, Munich Symphony and Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, as well as this weekend's Music Hall subscription debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

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 Madama Butterfly in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra; La Bohème, Turandot and Butterfly at the Puccini Festival; Rigoletto with the Toscannini Foundation Orchestra in various Italian theaters; Tosca at the Vienna Staatsoper; La Bohème at the Bilbao Opera; and Barbiere di Siviglia at the Maggio Musicale in Florence.

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), Rotterdam (Norma), Verona (Lucia, Tosca, La Vedova Allegra), and Ancona (Lucia), and symphony orchestras in San Francisco, Ravinia, Iceland, St. Paul, Houston, Seattle, Vancouver, Buffalo, New Jersey, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Riga, Kyiv, Leipzig, Florence, Athens and the Netherlands. Ms. Wilson also recorded Danzon, a CD of Latin American compositions for Dorian Records, with the Simón 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 master's 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.