Karin A. Cuellar Rendon is a historical violinist and Bolivian researcher currently based in Montreal, Canada. She regularly performs with Montreal-based early music ensembles such as Ensemble Caprice, Arion, Les Boréades, and L’Harmonie des Saisons. Her past collaborations include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Florilegium, the Oxford Bach Soloists, Ex Cathedra, the American Bach Soloists, Apollo’s Fire, ARTEK, and the National Symphony Orchestra of Bolivia. She is the first violinist of the Ximenez Quartet and was recently appointed Artistic Director of the International Baroque Music Festival “Misiones de Chiquitos” in Bolivia. Ms. Cuellar currently serves as Chair of the Board of Early Music America and Artistic Director of ClassiqueInclusif, an Ensemble Caprice initiative that won the 2024 OPUS Montreal Inclusion and Diversity Award.

Cuellar earned a Master of Arts in Historical Performance from Case Western Reserve University under Julie Andrijeski and Ross Duffin, and an Advanced Diploma in baroque violin from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with Maggie Faultless, Rachel Podger, and Matthew Truscott as a recipient of the San Marino and Vincent Meyer scholarships. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Musicology at McGill University, supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec, with a research focus on performance practices in South America during the first half of the nineteenth century, using as a case study the music of Peruvian composer Pedro Ximenez Abrill Tirado (1784–1856).