IBO Musicians

COSTA RICAN BAROQUE violinist and scholar Guillermo Salas-Suárez has served as guest concertmaster for Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, American Baroque Opera, Lumedia Musicworks and Bourbon Baroque, among others. Guillermo holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Historical Performance from Case Western Reserve University, where he studied with Dr. Julie Andrijeski. He has also performed with the Lyra, Atlanta, North Carolina, and Austin Baroque Orchestras, Apollo’s Fire, The Newberry Consort, Bach Collegium Fort Wayne, The Early Interval, and Wit’s Folly, a clarinet and strings chamber ensemble he co-founded.

Guillermo has collaborated and trained with Barthold Kuijken, Malcolm Bilson, Paolo Pandolfo, Jaap ten Linden, Enrico Gatti, Monica Huggett, Shunske Sato, Bruce Dickey, Peter Sellers, and the late Jeanne Lamon at the early music festivals in Boston, Amherst, Bloomington, Urbino (Italy), Daroca (Spain), Saintes (France), Stuttgart Bachwoche (Germany), etc. He has also appeared at the Aspen Music Festival, Severance Hall, Sala São Paulo (Brazil), and the National Theatres of Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and Honduras.

As a scholar of 18th-century music in Spain and Mexico, he has presented his research at Boston, Indiana, and Oregon Universities, and is currently writing an academic book for IU Press. As an educator, Guillermo is committed to the advancement of historical performance in Latin America, having served on the faculty at the Festival de Musica de Santa Catarina (Brazil) and conducted workshops at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Academia de Música Antigua de Medellín (Colombia), as well as the premier universities of his home country. He is a member of Early Music America’s IDEA Task Force, a cohort dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in early music throughout the continent. For the 24-25 season, Guillermo is excited to embark on a Latin American tour of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and recitals with harpsichordists QinYing Tan and Byron Schenkman.