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 Mikhail Pletnev.

Dorian Wilson has won more International prizes for conducting than any other conductor such as the Dimitri Mitropoulos; Athens, Kiril Kondrashin; Amsterdam, Tokyo International, Antonio Pedrotti, Tokyo International, Antonio Pedrotti and Arturo Toscanini; Italy, Nicolai Malko; Copenhague and Jeans Sibelius; Helsinki.

He has performed in great halls, such as the Komishe Opera and Deutsche Oper from Berlin, Royal Swedish Opera, Deutsches National Theater of Weimar, Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Copenhaguen, Florence, Seoul, San Petersburg, etc. He has collaborated with some of the most distinguished soloists including Yo- Yo Ma, Thomas Zehetmair, Vladmir Viardo, Cecile Licad, Shura Cherkassky, Boris Berezovsky and Mstislav Rostropovich, among others.

Dorian Wilson was Music Director of the Theatre Vorpommern, Germany. In his tenure there he conducted over 50 productions in more than 300 performances: Tosca, Rusalka, Fidelio, Othello, Madame Butterfly, Der Freishütz, Le nozze di Figaro, Carmen, Turandot, La Bohème, etc.

Live television broadcasts include Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Russian Nacional, Finnish Radio Orchestra and a documentary of a concert tour of Norway.