Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson's international career as a guest conductor spans over twenty years, leading some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras - such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - and operas at the world’s top opera houses, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Bolshoi Theatre, and the Wiener Staatsoper. Ms. Wilson’s work has been praised as “vividly shaped and nuanced” by The New York Times, and “elegantly incisive” by The Telegraph.
Ms. Wilson’s 2019/20 season alternates between symphonic and operatic work, beginning at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, where she conducts a new production of Rigoletto. A gala concert with Mr. Calleja and Ms. Radvanovsky brings her to San Juan, followed by a symphonic concert featuring Liadov, Chopin and Rachmaninov in Gran Canaria. A frequent guest conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre, she returns once again this season to conduct Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and La Bohème. She also conducts La Bohème at the Latvian National Opera, before traveling to Sofia, where she leads the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in a symphonic concert with works by Brahms and Beethoven. At the Sofia Opera, she conducts Turandot. In March, she continues her work in Warsaw, Poland at the Polish National Opera, this time with Carmen. Maestro Wilson then makes a celebrated return to her alma mater, Juilliard, where she conducts a new production of La Bohème followed by Shepherd's Magiya and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1. Her season concludes with her debut at the Teatro Colon where she leads performances of Tosca.
Recent operatic career highlights include Carmen at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and La Traviata at the Wiener Staatsoper; La Traviata, Madama Butterfly and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and La Traviata at the Opernhaus Zürich; Don Carlo, Iolanta, Tosca, and La Bohème at the Bolshoi Theatre; La Fanciulla del West and Aida at the English National Opera; Rusalka at the Czech National Opera; Der fliegende Holländer, Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov, and Carmen at the Polish National Opera; and Faust at the Washington National Opera. She was the first female conductor to lead an opera at: the Arena di Verona, where she conducted Tosca and Madama Butterfly; the New National Theatre (NNT) Tokyo, where she lead Madama Butterfly; and the Opera di Roma, where she conducted Aïda.
On the concert stage, Maestro Wilson has led the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Wiener KammerOrchester, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Russian National Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic, the RAI Symphony Orchestra, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony the Orchestra national d'Ile de France, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Toronto Symphony, and l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal among others. While her symphonic repertoire is varied, she specializes in Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Brahms and Beethoven.
Ms. Wilson was raised in Winnipeg, Canada, where she studied flute, piano, and violin from an early age. While still a student at Juilliard, she assisted Claudio Abbado at the Salzburg Festival, and won a fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center. Upon graduating from Juilliard with a masters both in flute and conducting, she was named the Associate Conductor at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN SYMPHONIC ENGAGEMENTS
Los Angeles Philharmonic
San Francisco Symphony
Seattle Symphony
Ravinia Festival Orchestra
Houston Symphony
Saint Louis Symphony
Cincinnati Symphony
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
San Antonio Symphony
Denver Symphony
Phoenix Symphony
Indianapolis Symphony
Utah Symphony
Buffalo Philharmonic
New Jersey Symphony
Puerto Rico Symphony
Honolulu Symphony
Toronto Symphony
Montreal Symphony
National Arts Center Orchestra
Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal
Quebec Symphony
Laval Symphony
Winnipeg Symphony
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
Edmonton Symphony
Calgary Philharmonic
Vancouver Symphony
CBC Radio Orchestra of Vancouver
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra
Los Angeles Opera- La Rondine
Washington Opera- Turandot
Canadian Opera Company- Tosca
Montreal Opera- La Fanciulla del West, Simon Boccanegra, The Flying Dutchman, Otello
Juilliard Opera- Falstaff, Gianni Schicci / L'Heure Espanole, Les Mamelles de Tiresias / Der Kaiser Von Atlantis
EUROPEAN OPERATIC ENGAGEMENTS
Royal Opera House, London- Carmen
Bavarian State Opera- La Traviata, Tosca, Madame Butterfly
Leipzig Opera- Madame Butterfly
NDR Televised Open Air Opera- La Boheme, La Traviata, Rigoletto
Audi Summer Festival, Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra- Romeo and Juliette
Schleswig Holstein Festival, NDR Hannover Orchestra- Turandot
Erfurt Opera- Lucia di Lammermoor
Vienna State Opera- Tosca, Madame Butterfly, La Traviata
L'Arena di Verona- Tosca, Madame Butterfly, La Vedova Allegra
Puccini Festival- Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Turandot, Tosca
Taormina Festival- Cavalleria Rusticana
Rome Opera- Aida
Parma Opera- Rigoletto
Palermo Opera- Rigoletto, Don Pasquale, La Fille du Regiment
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino- Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Torino Opera- Lucia di Lammermoor
Trieste Opera- La Cenerentola
Bari Opera- Otello, Werther, L'Elisir d'Amore
Fondazione Toscanini, Teatro Verdi, Bussetto- Rigoletto
Ancona Opera- Lucia di Lammermoor
Valencia Opera- L'Elisir d'Amore
Bilbao Opera- La Boheme, Don Giovanni, Anna Bolena, La Traviata
Sinfonia Galicia, La Coruna- Nabucco, Attila, Il Trovatore
Zurich Opera- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, La Traviata
English National Opera- La Fanciulla del West, Aida
Opera de Nice- Otello
Norwegian Opera- Tosca
Royal Swedish Opera- Pique Dame, Il Ballo in Maschera
Mariinsky Theater- Madame Butterfly, Lucia di Lammermoor, Hansel and Gretel, La Traviata
Bolshoi Opera- Don Carlo, Iolanta, Tosca, La Boheme
National Opera of Ukraine- Manon Lescaut, Turandot
Astana Opera- Aida, La Traviata
Polish National Opera- Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, The Flying Dutchman, Lucia di Lammermoor
Bucharest National Opera- Eugene Onegin, Manon Lescaut, Tosca
Cluj Napoca Opera- Tannhauser, The Flying Dutchman
Iasi Opera- Don Giovanni
EUROPEAN SYMPHONIC ENGAGEMENTS
NDR Hannover Orchestra
Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra
Aachen Symphony
Dusseldorf Symphony
Hessischer State Opera Orchestra
Hof Symphony
Russian National Orchestra
Latvian National Orchestra
Lithuanian National Orchestra
Hungarian National Orchestra
Prague Philharmonic
Slovakian Philharmonic
Slovenian Philharmonic (Music Director 2013-2015)
Zagreb Philharmonic
National Orchestra of Ukraine
RAI Symphony Orchestra
Sicilian Symphony Orchestra
Cagliari Opera Orchestra
Catania Opera Orchestra
Madrid Opera Orchestra
Oviedo Symphony
Seville Symphony
L'Orchestre de L'Ile de France
Flemish Radio Orchestra
Athens Camerata
Iceland Symphony
Timisoara Philharmonic
ASIA
New National Opera of Tokyo- Madame Butterfly
Hong Kong Philharmonic
China National Symphony
Taiwan Symphony
AUSTRALIA
Opera Australia- Così Fan Tutte
MIDDLE EAST
Israel Opera- Boris Godunov, Pique Dame, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, La Boheme
Jerusalem Symphony
Royal Opera of Muscat- La Fille du Regiment, Palermo Opera
Gala Concerts- Anna Netrebko and Prague Philharmonic, Diana Damrau and the Palermo Opera Orchestra
1967-1972
Early childhood in Winnipeg
1972-1985
Studies piano, flute, and violin
Joins Winnipeg Youth Orchestra
At age of 16 and 17, performs as flute soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony and Calgary Philharmonic
Attends the Banff School of Music summer program
1985 -1990
Receives Bachelor and Master's degrees in flute from The Juilliard
School as a scholarship student of Julius Baker
Wins Juilliard flute competition and performs as soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
Makes Carnegie Hall debut with solo flute recital in Weill Hall
1990-94
Receives Master's degree in conducting from Juilliard, studying with Otto-Werner Mueller
Wins conducting fellowship at Tanglewood Music Festival
Receives the Bruno Walter fellowship award for summer studies
Assists Claudio Abbado at the Salzburg Festival
Makes conducting debut with the National Arts Center Orchestra of Ottawa
1994-98
Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
1998
Embarks on international conducting career