Colombian-American conductor Lina González-Granados has distinguished herself nationally and internationally as a singular talent. Her spectacular interpretations of the symphonic and operatic repertoire, as well as her dedication to highlighting new and unknown works by Latin American composers, have earned her international recognition. Most recently, she was named one of Bloomberg Línea’s 100 Influential Latinos of 2022. She is also the recipient of the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the Third Prize and ECHO Special Award (European Concert Hall Organization) of the La Maestra Competition, and the 2020 and 2021 Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award.
After winning the Fourth Chicago Symphony Orchestra Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, Lina was named the Solti Conducting Apprentice and served as the assistant to Maestro Riccardo Muti from February 2020 through June 2023. In the fall of 2022, she was appointed Resident Conductor by LA Opera, a post she will hold through June 2028. She has also previously held positions as the Inaugural Conducting Fellow of the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as Conducting Fellow of the Seattle Symphony.
Lina’s 2025–26 season starts with an extensive tour with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist, performing across France, Germany, and Austria, followed by debuts with Orquestra Sinfónica de Minería, the Tulsa, Grand Rapids, and Omaha symphonies, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan, Istanbul State Orchestra, Franz Schubert Filharmonia, and the National Orchestra of Spain. This season, Lina will be returning to the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Kristiansand Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, National Symphony Dublin, Orchestre Métropolitain, and LA Opera to lead the production of La bohème in the fall of 2025.
Recent highlights include debuts with Opera Philadelphia; the Indianapolis, Atlanta, New World, and New Jersey symphonies; the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa; the Sarasota and Minnesota orchestras; Aalborg Symphony; Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège; Orchestre Symphonique de Québec; and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. During her tenure at LA Opera, Lina led a highly acclaimed production of Britten’s Rape of Lucretia, which San Francisco Classical Voice called an “insightfully led” performance that “gave new meaning to the words intimacy, clarity, and beauty, all wrapped in a damning and brutal storyline”; she also conducted El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, the LA Opera production of a new musical portrait by GRAMMY-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, as well as Golijov’s haunting Ainadamar in the spring of 2025.
Born and raised in Cali, Colombia, Lina made her conducting debut in 2008 with the Youth Orchestra of Bellas Artes. She holds a master’s degree in conducting with Charles Peltz, a graduate diploma in choral conducting from the New England Conservatory with Erica Washburn, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in orchestral conducting from Boston University. Her principal mentors include Riccardo Muti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bernard Haitink, Bramwell Tovey, and Marin Alsop.
