Colombian-American conductor Lina González-Granados 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 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, she was named the Solti Conducting Apprentice and served as assistant to Riccardo Muti from February 2020 through June 2023. In 2022 she was appointed resident conductor of LA Opera, a post she held through June 2025. She has previously been conducting fellow of both The Philadelphia Orchestra, with which she made her debut in 2020, and the Seattle Symphony.

Ms. Gonzalez-Granados’s 2024–25 season started with a tour across Colombia with the Filarmónica Joven de Colombia, followed by debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra; the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic; the Phoenix, New Jersey, and National Dublin symphonies; and at the National Arts Center Ottawa. She conducted the finale of the Sphinx Competition in January and returned to the Chicago Symphony and the San Antonio Philharmonic. At LA Opera she conducted Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet and Golijov’s Ainadamar, among others. Recent highlights include debuts with Opera Philadelphia; the Orchestre Metropolitain; the Indianapolis, Atlanta, New World, and Aalborg symphonies; and the Sarasota Orchestra.

Born and raised in Cali, Colombia, Ms. Gonzalez-Granados 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 New England Conservatory, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in orchestral conducting from Boston University. Her principal mentors include Mr. Muti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bernard Haitink, Bramwell Tovey, and Marin Alsop.