A native of Winnipeg, Canada, Ms. Kerri-Lynn Wilson studied the flute, piano and violin. At the Juilliard School in New York, she was a student of renowned flutist Julius Baker and made her debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of 21. A recipient of the Bruno Walter Scholarship, she continued her studies at Juilliard in the conducting program with Otto-Werner Mueller.  While still a student, she assisted Claudio Abbado at the Salzburg Festival and won a fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center. Upon graduation, she was the Associate Conductor at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra until 1998, when she launched her international career as a guest conductor. Keri-Lynn Wilson is a regular guest conductor at leading international opera companies and orchestras. In the past few years, her engagements included Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West at the English National Opera, Aida in Astana, Verdi’s Attila in La Coruna and an open-air performance of La Bohème. In the 2012/13 season, Ms. Wilson made her debut at the Zurich Opera, conducting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and La Traviata. At Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival she debuted with the NDR Radiophilharmonic Orchestra with Turandot. Ms. Wilson has conducted orchestras in Paris, Los Angeles, Munich, Montreal, Toronto, Washington, Aachen, Leipzig, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, and Ljubljana, amongst others. Dorian Records has produced a CD of Ms. Wilson conducting the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela playing Danzón and Latin American compositions.