In January and February, Maestro Wilson returns to her native Canada for performances of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. The cast includes soprano Eri Nakamura as Cio-Cio San, tenor Kang Wang as Pinkerton, mezzo-soprano Hyona Kim as Suzuki, and baritone Michael Sumuel as Sharpless.

Performances take place on January 24th & 26th; February 1st, 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th and 16th. Tickets and more information can be found here. 

In March, Maestro Wilson travels to Berlin for the second time this season to conduct R. Strauss' Salome at the Deutsche Oper. Claus Guth's production features soprano Olesya Golovneva as Salome, tenor Thomas Blondelle as Herodes, soprano Evelyn Herlitzius as Herodias, baritone Jordan Shanahan as Jochanaan, and Kieran Carrel as Narraboth.

Performances take place on March 8th and 14th. Tickets can be purchased here.  

To help Argentina ring in its New Year, Maestro Wilson will conduct Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, together with Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp, at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires on December 21st.

 Tickets and more information can be found here.

Maestro Wilson’s recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra was released by Deutsche Grammophon in February 2024. You can listen to the recording here. 

Maestro Wilson makes her debut with the New York Philharmonic on December 5 in a program of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10, his Festive Overture, and Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto with Philharmonic concertmaster Frank Huang as soloist. The Tenth Symphony is accompanied by renowned artist William Kentridge's stop-motion animation film Oh To Believe in Another World, a study of decades of Soviet totalitarianism under which Shostakovich toiled, from Lenin to Stalin. Additional performance are on December 6 and 7.

Maestro Wilson also conducts a Young People's Concert on December 7th. A special initiative created by the New York Philharmonic, these concerts explore how orchestral music can become a catalyst for big ideas like freedom and humanity. 

Tickets and more information can be found here.

In commemoration of the centenary of the death of Puccini, Maestro Wilson will conduct a series of orchestral concerts in Spain in late October and early November with soloists Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczała at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real de Madrid and Les Arts Valencia. In an all-Puccini program, Ms. Wilson will conduct the Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu in two concerts on October 24th and 27th, the Real Orquestra Sinfonica de Sevilla on October 30th, the Orchestra of the Teatro Real on November 3rd, and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana on November 10th. 

Performances take place in Barcelona on October 24th and 27th; in Sevilla on October 30th, in Madrid on November 3rd, and Valencia November 10th.

Maestro Wilson returns to Salzburg to conduct the opening concert of the Latino Mozart Festival with the Havana Lyceum Orchestra. The program includes works by Mozart, Latino composers Arturo Marquez and Javier Alvarez, and Ukrainian composers Dmytro Bortniansky and Volodymyr Zubytsky. The concert takes place on September 27th in the Grosser Saal of the Stiftung Mozarteum and features soloists Valeriy Sokolov (Violin), Jovica Ivanovic (accordion), and Rolando Villazón as the host. 

Tickets and additional information can be found here.

To begin her 2024/25 season, Maestro Wilson makes her debut at Berlin’s Staatsoper, conducting Turandot. Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska sings the title role, with tenor Riccardo Massi as Calaf, soprano Elena Stikhina as Liu, and René Pape as Timur.

Performances take place on September 14th, 18th, 21st and 25th. Tickets and more information can be found here. 

Canadian Ukrainian Wilson, Founder and Music Director of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, to Lead the Kyiv Camerata in Concerts Both Inside and Outside the War Torn Country.

Wilson to conduct concerts on multiple visits to Ukraine in coming months.

Keri-Lynn Wilson, the 57 year old conductor who has helped lead the fight for Ukraine’s freedom on the cultural front ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, has been named the Music Director of Ukraine’s leading chamber orchestra, the Kyiv Camerata, it was announced today by Bohdana Pivnenko, the orchestra’s General and Artistic Director.

The Kyiv Camerata was established in 1977 by Valery Matyukhin, its sole previous conductor who died in 2023. It was created with the support of Ukraine’s Union of Composers to champion and commission works by leading contemporary composers, including Valentin Sylvestrov, Yevgeny Stankovych, and Myroslav Skoryck.

Keri-Lynn Wilson has been awarded the Order of Princess Olga by President Zelensky on August 23rd in honor of Ukrainian Independence Day for her dedicated and tireless artistic work in support of Ukraine. The award is in recognition of Ms. Wilson’s creation of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra and its concerts around the world in defense of Ukraine’s cultural legacy, as well as Ms. Wilson’s on going concert activities inside Ukraine’s embattled cities. Slava Ukraini🇺🇦

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The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra to regroup for a summer tour of the great cathedrals and concert halls of Europe and the United States

Program to feature Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in a unique Ukrainian language version to re- assert the values of freedom, resistance, and progress against the forces of oppression in the 200th- anniversary year of the symphony’s composition

Maestro Wilson continued her unshakeable support of Ukraine with performances in Lviv and Kyiv in May. First, she prepared and conducted Ukrainian composer Yuli Meitus’ opera, Stolen Happiness, at the Lviv National Opera on May 26th.

Maestro Wilson returns to Bordeaux to conduct the Orchestre national de Bordeaux Aquitaine in Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, his Festive Overture and Myroslav Skoryk’s Melody on May 15.

Tickets and additional information are available here.

On April 28th, Maestro Wilson conducts Ukraine’s leading chamber orchestra, the Kyiv Camerata, in a  special concert in support of Ukraine at Carnegie‘s Zankel Hall, featuring works by Ukraine’s leading contemporary composers. Legendary mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joins as soloist for the North-American premiere of “No Man is an Island” by Victoria Poleva. The Ukrainian Dumka Chorus of New York also performs.

Tickets and more information can be found here.

 On April 19th, Maestro Wilson conducts “Rebuild Ukraine,” a fundraising concert for Ukraine in Berlin’s Konzerthaus with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester  and some of opera’s most acclaimed singers. 

The performance is being streamed live by Deutsche Welle. 

Tickets and more information can be found here.

Following her operatic performances in London, and in a show of solidarity for the Baltic nations united in their support of Ukraine, Mrs. Wilson travels to Vilnius to conduct the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra on April 13th in a concert featuring the pianists Kamile Zaveckaite and Marcel Lazar. The program includes Diptych by Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk, Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in A flat minor, Op. 88a by Max Bruch and the Enigma Variations , Op. 36 by Edward Elgar.

Tickets and more information can be found here.

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The highlight of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra’s 2023 European tour was its emotionally charged performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9, with Schiller’s great poem “Ode to Joy”, his cry of freedom, resistance and progress against the forces of oppression, memorably sung by the soloists and chorus in Ukrainian.

Following her extended run of ten performances of “La Bohème” at the Royal Opera House, Keri-Lynn Wilson remains in London to conduct Jenufa at the English National Opera next month. Jennifer Davis sings the title role in Janacrk’a gripping domestic drama directed by David Alden, with Susan Bullock as Kostelnicka, Richard Trey Smagur as Laca, and John Findon as Steva.

Performances on March 13,16, 20, 22, 25, 27.

Tickets and more information can be found here.

Ms. Wilson returns to the Royal Opera House in London this month to conduct Richard Jones’ recent production of La Bohème. Sopranos Ruzan Mantashyan and Yaritza Véliz share the role of Mimi, Stefan Pop and Leonardo Caimi play Rodolfo, Mikhail Timoshenko and Gihoon Kim are the Marcellos, and Danielle de Niese and Andrea Carroll are the Musettas.

Performances are on January 24th, 27th, 29th, 31st; February 2nd, 8th, 10th, 11th, 13th and 16th. Tickets and more information can be found here.

On December 16th as a sign of solidarity and support Keri-Lynn Wilson, Canadian Ukrainian music director and conductor, will lead Lviv National Opera Orchestra and Chorus at the special event dedicated to Ukrainian struggle for independence and peace. The concert “In Dedication of Invincible Ukraine” will feature Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with a new performance edition sung in Ukrainian. Changing the German word for “Joy/Freude” to the Ukrainian word for “Glory/Slava,” Ukraine’s rallying cry for victory, the concert will be the symbol of moral support for a nation at war. The concert program will commence with a Ukrainian premiere by Viktoriya Polyova “Nova – dedication to the courage of Ukraine” written in 2022.

Tickets and more information can be found here.

Ms. Wilson makes her pandemic-delayed debut at Opéra de Paris, where she conducts Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon. She was originally scheduled to debut with Carmen in 2020, but COVID brought a close to the rehearsals just days before the scheduled opening. Cendrillon is directed by Mariame Clément and features Jeanine De Bique in the title role, Paula Murrihy as Le prince charmant, Caroline Wettergreen as La Fée, Emy Gazeilles as Noémie, Marine Chagnon as Dorothée, Laurent Naouri as Pandolfe and Daniela Barcellona as Madame de La Haltière. 

Performances take place on October 25th & 29th; November 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 14th and 16th.

Tickets and more information can be found here.

Maestro Wilson’s first performance of the new season takes place this Friday, September 22nd with the Sinfonieorchester St Gallen. The program features Robert Schumann’s Second Symphony and his piano concerto in A Minor, as well as Clara Schumann’s Piano Cocnerto in A minor. Lithuanian pianist Guoda Gedvilaitė is the soloist for both concertos. 

The performance takes place at the Tonhalle on 22nd September. Tickets can be found here.