Name	Keri Lynn Pratt
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth	23 September 1978,
Place of Birth	Concord, New Hampshire, USA
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Keri-Lynn Wilson divides her conducting career between symphony orchestras and opera productions. In recent seasons she conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber and the New Jersey Symphony. She also made debuts at the Leipzig Opera with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in a new production of "Madame Butterfly"; the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago conducting "Madame Butterfly"; with the Toscanini Symphony in various Italian theatres conducting a new production of "Rigoletto"; and at the opening of the restored opera house in Ancona conducting a new production of "Lucia".

A native of Winnipeg Ms Wilson began her musical studies at the age of three; she holds three Julliard School of Music degrees - a Master's degree in conducting and both Bachelor's and Master's in flute. As a flute student at Julliard, her teacher was the renowned Julius Baker, and she made her Carnegie Hall debut as a flutist at the age of 21. Ms Wilson made her conducting debut with the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada in 1990 at the age of 23.

She became the Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony in 1994, shortly after her graduation from Julliard, where she had been awarded a Bruno Walter Fellowship and studied under Otto-Werner Mueller. While still in school, she worked as Assistant to Claudio Abbado at the Salzburg Festival and was a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in the summer of 1994.

Ms Wilson started her career as an international guest conductor in 1998, when she left her post as Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony. Since then, she has conducted symphony orchestras and opera productions throughout the world. Her opera performances have included Florence ("The Barber of Seville"); Nice ("Othello" and "Tosca"); Rome ("Aida"); Torino ("Lucia"); Verona ("Tosca" and "Lucia"); Sienna and Busseto ("Rigoletto"); Rotterdam ("Norma"). Orchestras Ms Wilson has conducted include Montreal, San Francisco, Gewandhaus, Maggio Musicale, Iceland, Toronto, Ravinia, Cincinnati, Saint Paul, Saint Louis, Houston, Seattle, Vancouver, Buffalo, New Jersey, Athens Kamarata, Hong Kong, and the Flemish Radio Orchestra. She has also recorded "Danzón," a CD of Latin American compositions for Dorian Records, with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Caracas.

Last season Ms Wilson again conducted several different programmes with the Montreal Symphony, one of which was filmed for broadcast; conducted the Saint Louis Symphony, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and made her debut with the RAI Symphony Orchestra in a special concert televised live in Italy, as well as performances of "Tosca" at the Vienna Staatsoper. In 2004 she returned to the Puccini Festival for a new production of "Turandot" and last year conducted ‘La Bohème’. She also made a highly successful debut at the Bilbao Opera conducting a new production of "La Bohème", and returns to conduct ‘La Favorita’ in 2007.

n 2005 she conducted again in Verona, a new production of ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Teatro Filarmonica and made her début at the Kirov Opera (‘La Bohème’ and ‘Madame Butterfly’) at the invitation of Valery Gergiev. Last season she conducted ‘La Cenerentola’ at Trieste, ‘Werther’ in Bari with Marcelo Alvarez, as well as débuts with the Municher Symphoniker and the Cincinnati Symphony. Summer 2006 saw her conduct again at the Arena di Verona (‘Madame Butterfly’).

Keri-Lynn Wilson started 2007 with a production of 'Thais' at Palm Beach Opera and conducted 'Lucia di Lammermoor' at Erfurt Opera in Germany. She has given concerts in Valencia and Madrid and next month makes her debut at Den Norske Opera in Oslo with 'Tosca'. This summer she appears again at Torre Del Lago with 'Tosca' and this autumn is at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo for 'Don Pasquale' then Bilbao for 'Anna Bolenna'. Future appearances include 'Madam Butterfly' at the Staatsoper Wiener and 'La Rondine in Los Angeles in 2008, then 'Turandot' in Washington in 2009.