{"id":252312,"date":"2023-10-16T20:33:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T17:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opera.lviv.ua\/personel\/keri-linn-vilson\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T12:59:28","slug":"keri-linn-vilson","status":"publish","type":"personel","link":"https:\/\/opera.lviv.ua\/en\/personel\/keri-linn-vilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Keri-Lynn Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Keri-Lynn Wilson\u2019s career as a conductor spans more than twenty years, and includes engagements at both opera houses, including the Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper and Metropolitan Opera, and with orchestras including the LA Phil, and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.<\/p>\n

Most recently, her idea of defending Ukraine through music resulted in the creation of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, an ensemble composed of leading Ukrainian musicians from inside the embattled country, as well as recent refugees and Ukrainian members of European orchestras. In July and August 2022, led by Ms. Wilson, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra toured across Europe, performing at the BBC Proms in London, the Edinburgh Festival, the Les Chor\u00e9gies d\u2019Orange festival in France, Lincoln Center\u2019s Damrosch Park and the Kennedy Center among other venues.<\/p>\n

Other highlights of Ms. Wilson\u2019s 2022\/23 season include her return to Covent Garden, conducting La Traviata; and performances with Tokyo\u2019s NHK Orchestra, the Hessische Staatsorchester Wiesbaden, the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, the Wroc\u0142aw Philharmonic, Orchestre national Bordeaux Aquitaine, and the Lithuanian National Orchestra. She returns to her alma mater, Juilliard, to conduct the double bill of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi and to the Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al to conduct Madama Butterfly in the spring.<\/p>\n

Over a rich and varied career, Ms. Wilson has conducted, amongst many other orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the San Francisco Symphony, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Bruckner Orchestra of Linz, the Prague Philharmonia, the RAI Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Orchestre national d\u2019Ile de France, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Toronto Symphony and l\u2019Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal.<\/p>\n

Ms. Wilson\u2019s career operatic 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, Madama Butterfly at the Deutsche Oper, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and La Traviata at the Opernhaus Z\u00fcrich, Don Carlo, Iolanta, Manon Lescaut, Carmen, Tosca, and La traviata at the Bolshoi Theatre, La Fanciulla del West and A\u00efda at the English National Opera, Rusalka at the Czech National Opera, Rigoletto at the Norwegian National Opera, Der Fliegende Holl\u00e4nder, Carmina Burana, Boris Godunov, and Carmen at the Polish National Opera, Faust at the Washington National Opera, Pique Dame and Tosca at the Latvian National Opera and Madama Butterfly at the Canadian Opera Company. 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 led Madama Butterfly; and the Opera di Roma, where she conducted A\u00efda.<\/p>\n

Of partial Ukrainian descent, Ms. Wilson was raised in Winnipeg, Canada, home of North America\u2019s most concentrated Ukrainian population, 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.<\/p>\n