Costa Rican Baroque violinist Guillermo Salas-Suárez made his directorial debut with the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra in 2021. In demand as a period player, he has performed with the Atlanta, Lyra, and Austin Baroque Orchestras, Apollo’s Fire, Bourbon Baroque, and The Newberry Consort. He has been a member of CityMusic Cleveland since 2018, and currently leads its Baroque chamber ensemble.

Guillermo has collaborated and trained with Malcolm Bilson, Paolo Pandolfo, Jaap ten Linden, Barthold Kuijken, Bruce Dickey, and the late Jeanne Lamon at the early music festivals in Boston, Bloomington (US), Urbino (Italy), Daroca (Spain), Saintes (France), and the Stuttgart Bachwoche (Germany). Guillermo has also shared the stage with conductors and soloists Manfred Honeck, Robert Spano, Yefim Bronfman, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Midori, Lang Lang, and Renée Fleming, in venues such as the Aspen Music Festival, Severance Hall, the Sala São Paulo (Brazil), and the National Theatres of Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, and Honduras.

As a scholar on the music from 18th-century Spain and Mexico, Guillermo has presented his research at Boston, Indiana, and Oregon Universities, Early Music America, and Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica). He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Historical Performance from Case Western Reserve University, where he studied with Dr. Julie Andrijeski.