Keri-Lynn Wilson

Born in 1967 to a family of Canadian-Ukrainian musicians, the conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson received early instruction on the flute, violin, and piano and performed as a flute soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic at a young age. At the Juilliard School in New York, she studied flute with Julius Baker and conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller. She gained important experience as an assistant to Claudio Abbado at the Salzburg Festival and as a scholarship student at the Tanglewood Music Center. Wilson launched her professional career in 1994 as Associate Conductor with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. This has evolved into a varied career on the concert stage and in musical theater. Keri-Lynn Wilson has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Bruckner Orchestra in Linz, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic, and Orchestre national d’Île-de-France. She has led Bizet’s Carmen at the Royal Opera House in London, Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly at the Vienna Staatsoper, Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Zurich Opera, Dvořák’s Rusalka at Czech National Opera in Prague, and Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Bavarian Staatsoper. Last season, she made her debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In the 2023-24 season, she will guest conduct Massenet’s Cendrillon at the Opéra national de Paris, Puccini’s La Bohème at the Royal Opera House, and Janáček’s Jenůfa at English National Opera. Keri-Lynn Wilson is the cofounder and director of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, with which she toured Europe and the United States in the summer of 2022. This year, performances will follow in London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Lucerne, Warsaw, and Berlin.

July 2023