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Download biography as pdf Download biography as word docKeri-Lynn Wilson successfully conducted Tosca, Madama Butterfly and La Traviata at the Wiener Staatsoper; La Bohème, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly and the new production of Lucia di Lammermoor with Anna Netrebko at the Kirov Opera (Mariinsky); Turandot, Madama Butterfly,Tosca and La Bohème at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Florenz; Otello and Tosca in Nice; Aida in Rome; Lucia di Lammermoor in Turin; L’Elisir d’Amore at the Bari Opera; La Bohème and Anna Bolena in Bilbao; Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Lucia in the Arena di Verona; Madama Butterfly in Leipzig; Rigoletto in Parma; Don Pasquale in Palermo; La Bohème Tosca“ and "Iolanta" at the Bolshoi Opera; Tosca at the Oslo Opera, La Rondine at the Los Angeles Opera, La Traviata at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, La Bohème at the Israeli Opera, Falstaff at the Juilliard Opera New York, Turandot at the Washington National Opera and La Fanciulla del West at the Montreal Opera.
Just to mention a few orchestras conducted by Canadian Keri-Lynn Wilson during the last seasons: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the St. Paul Chambre Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Oviedo Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra Aachen, the Gewandhausorchestra Leipzig, the Mariinsky Orchestra St. Petersburg, the Orchestra of Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra at the Munich Opera Festival 2009 (Münchner Opernfestspiele 2009).
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Keri-Lynn Wilson successfully conducted Tosca, Madama Butterfly and La Traviata at the Wiener Staatsoper; La Bohème, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly and the new production of Lucia di Lammermoor with Anna Netrebko at the Kirov Opera (Mariinsky); Turandot, Madama Butterfly,Tosca and La Bohème at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Florenz; Otello and Tosca in Nice; Aida in Rome; Lucia di Lammermoor in Turin; L’Elisir d’Amore at the Bari Opera; La Bohème and Anna Bolena in Bilbao; Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Lucia in the Arena di Verona; Madama Butterfly in Leipzig; Rigoletto in Parma; Don Pasquale in Palermo; La Bohème and „Tosca" and “Iolanta" at the Bolshoi Opera; Tosca at the Oslo Opera, La Rondine at the Los Angeles Opera, La Traviata at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, La Bohème at the Israeli Opera, Falstaff at the Juilliard Opera New York, Turandot at the Washington National Opera and La Fanciulla del West at the Montreal Opera.
In 2009/10 Keri-Lynn Wilson was conducting Manon Lescaut at the Bukarest National Opera (George Ionescu Festival), Boris Godunov at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, Tosca at the Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper), Simon Boccanegra at the Montreal Opera, Rigoletto at the Teatro Massimo Palermo and Iolanthe at the Bolshoi Opera. She was participating in the Prague Spring Festival and conducting the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Ochestra Teatro Regio di Parma at the Opera Bilbao. She conducted the Orchestre National d'Ile de France in Paris with Anna Netrebko and returned to the Israeli Opera with Pique Dame.
The current season leads the conductor to the opera houses of Vienna (State Opera) and Tel Aviv as well as concert productions in Munich, Salerno, Montreal and others.
Ms Wilson conducts opera as well as symphonic works. Recently she conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the St. Paul Chambre Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Oviedo Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra Aachen, the Gewandhausorchestra Leipzig, the Mariinsky Orchestra St. Petersburg, the Orchestra of Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra at the Munich Opera Festival 2009 (Münchner Opernfestspiele 2009).
Dorian Records has produced a CD of Ms Wilson conducting the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela playing Danzón and Latin American compositions.
Keri-Lynn Wilson comes from Winnipeg, Canada. She studied flute, piano and violin and acquired her Masters diploma in conducting and flute at The Juilliard School of Music. She studied flute with the renowned Julius Baker and made her debut at the Carnegie Hall at the age of 21. Having received the Bruno Walter Scholarship she then studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller, making her debut with the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada at the age of 23. Still a student she assisted Claudio Abbado at the Salzburg Festival and won a grant from the Tanglewood Music Center. 1994 to 98 she was Kapellmeister at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.