Lina González-Granados was named one of Bloomberg Línea’s 100 Influential Latinos of 2022 and was the recipient of the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, third prize and Echo Special Award of La Maestra Competition, and two Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Awards. After winning the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition, González-Granados was named the Solti Conducting Apprentice, and served as the assistant to Riccardo Muti from 2020–23. In 2022, she was appointed resident conductor by the LA Opera, a post she will hold through June 2028. She was also the inaugural conducting fellow of the Philadelphia Orchestra and a conducting fellow of the Seattle Symphony.

González-Granados’s 2025–26 season started on tour with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Anne-Sophie Mutter, performing across France, Germany and Austria, followed by debuts with Orquestra Sinfónica de Minería, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Taiwan Philharmonic, Istanbul State Orchestra, and National Orchestra of Spain. This season she returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra, Kristiansand Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, Quebec’s Orchestre Métropolitain, and LA Opera. Recent highlights include debuts with Opera Philadelphia, the Indianapolis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, New World Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Quebec Symphony, and Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in July 2021.

Born and raised in Cali, Colombia, González-Granados made her conducting debut in 2008 with the Youth Orchestra of Bellas Artes. She holds a master’s degree and graduate diploma from New England Conservatory and a doctorate from Boston University.