Christopher Wilkins (born 1957) is an American music director, conductor, oboist, and a 1992 Seaver/NEA Award recipient.
[1] Wilkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts where by 1978 he obtained bachelor's degree from Harvard College He studied with German-born conductor Otto-Werner Mueller while being enrolled into Yale University and got his Master of Music degree from there by 1981.
[2] Under guidance from James DePreist he became an Oregon Symphony's conducting assistant.
As a YOA Orchestra of the Americas residential conductor he has conducted at such cities as Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco and also performed overseas in such countries as New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom and in various countries of Latin America.
Besides national and international conducting he also was a conductor for various music centers and schools such as the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts in the South End and the Conservatory Lab Charter School among many others.