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Music at Midday | Qin Ying Tan, harpsichord, Guillermo Salas-Suárez, violin 

  • First Congregational Church 444 East Broad Street Columbus, OH, 43215 United States (map)

Qin Ying Tan, harpsichord, Guillermo Salas-Suárez, violin
Take a break from the busy workweek and experience an unforgettable concert of Baroque brilliance with acclaimed violinist Guillermo Salas-Suárez and harpsichordist Dr. Qin Ying Tan. Don’t miss this extraordinary showcase of talent, artistry, and musical heritage.

Costa Rican Baroque violinist and scholar Guillermo Salas-Suárez has served as guest con-certmaster 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 Andri-jeski. He has also performed with the Lyra, Atlanta, North Carolina, and Austin Baroque Or-chestras, Apollo’s Fire, The Newberry Consort, Bach Collegium Fort Wayne, The Early Inter-val, 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 Na-tional 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 Músi-ca 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 diversi-ty and inclusion in early music throughout the continent. For the 24-25 season, Guillermo is ex-cited to embark on a Latin American tour of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and recitals with harpsi-chordists QinYing Tan and Byron Schenkman. 

Lauded by Cleveland Classical as "an excellent soloist, a compelling performer who is equally comfortable handling long strings of notes... and singing through emotive melodies with her instrument,” Dr. Qin Ying Tan currently serves as harpsichord faculty at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music.  She also works at the Historical Performance Practice Program at Case Western Reserve University.   

Dr. Tan has appeared in concerts in Singapore, Shanghai, Germany, France, and has performed extensively across the United States of America.  This season sees engagements with Hudson Historical Society and Library, City Music, the Historically-Informed Performance Practice Department at Case Western Reserve University, and the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival.  In addition to her commitment to early repertoire, Tan regularly presents new music to her audiences and has premiered several pieces, most notable Cenk Ergun's sound installation piece, "Fomare" at the Cleveland Museum of Art and “Are You You” by Michi Wiancko with City Music. 

Dr. Tan has studied at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore (BMus), Peabody Conservatory of Music (masters in piano performance, harpsichord performance, and musicology), and Cleveland Institute of Music (DMA in harpsichord performance) where her excellence in music performance and academic studies has awarded her several full merit scholarships and awards.  She was awarded the Excellence in Early Music upon graduation at Peabody.  Her teachers included Albert Tiu, Marian Hahn, Adam Pearl, Webb Wiggins (Oberlin), Lisa Crawford (Eastman), Skip Sempre, Peter Bennett (Case Western), and Susan McClary (Case Western). 

As a pedagogue, Dr. Tan’s students have successfully gained admission into graduate programs in Michigan and Boston.  Dr. Tan continues to cultivate an interest of historically-informed performance performance at the pre-college and college level in her role as a board member of the Northeast Ohio MTNA and harpsichord faculty at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory.  Her passion for sharing historical music has also led her to lead dynamic workshops on baroque dance and historical keyboards in Southeast Asia where accessibility to period music is rare.  

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