Keri-Lynn Wilson

Keri-Lynn Wilson Conductor

Biography

Keri-Lynn Wilson is the founding conductor and music director of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. Of partly Ukrainian descent, she grew up in Canada, where she studied flute, piano, and violin. After graduating from Juilliard with a master’s degree in flute and orchestral conducting, she was appointed associate conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Her conducting credits include Carmen and La Traviata at the Royal Ballet and Opera; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Salome at Houston Grand Opera; Tosca and Madama Butterfly at the Vienna State Opera; La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, and The Barber of Seville at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich; Aida at English National Opera; and Madama Butterfly and Tosca at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.

She has also conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the BBC Proms, the Prague Philharmonia, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra.

During the 2025–2026 season, she will conduct, among others, La Bohème in New York, Madama Butterfly in Berlin, and Eugene Onegin in Santa Fe.

At the Paris Opera: Cendrillon, 2023

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