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Born in 1964, Wilson’s Conservatory studies are in piano, viola, composition, art history, and conducting; from Oberlin Conservatory (Piano and Art History), Indiana University (Piano and Viola), the University of Michigan (Orchestral Conducting and Opera Coaching) and the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna (Conducting). His teachers include Gustav Meier, Dmitri Kitaenko, Rudolph Barshai and Jorma Panula, standing out as one of Leonard Bernstein’s last students.

He first received international recognition at the 1989 Malko International Conducting Competition. As a result he was asked to be the second conductor for the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra; an unprecedented appointment in Russia for an American Conductor. Later Wilson was to be the first guest conductor of the Russian National Orchestra, created in 1990 by Mij¡khail Pletnev.