Collegiate roles include Assistant Chorus Master for the Indiana University Opera Theater productions of L’Elisir d’amore (Donizetti), Parsifal (Wagner), Falstaff (Verdi) and Ainadamar (Golijov) as well as serving as Assistant Conductor for NOTUS – IU Contemporary Ensemble, The Singing Hoosiers, and University Singers. Caio also directed Pro Cantare and IU All Campus Choir. 

As an Associate Instructor at Indiana University, he currently holds the Assistant Conductor position for the IU Oratorio Chorus, which will perform Orff’s Carmina Burana, and teaches undergraduate Conducting Techniques courses. 

In Brazil, Caio worked with choral ensembles as well as productions of musical theater and opera. He conducted workshops of Broadway titles such as Next to Normal, Avenue Q, Legally Blonde and The Last 5 Years. In 2016-17 he served as pianist/coach in the Theatro São Pedro Opera Studio playing recitals of art songs and serving as a staff pianist for the academy. Caio was also an active member of São Paulo State University (UNESP) opera studio conducting workshops of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and The Impresario and performing Bob in Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief. 

Caio is completing his Doctor of Music degree at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with Dr. Besty Burleigh, Dr. Dominick DiOrio and Prof. Walter Huff, and minoring in Music History and Historical Performance (Harpsichord/Basso Continuo). He holds a Master of Music in Choral Conducting, also from IU, and a Bachelor of Music from São Paulo State University, São Paulo, Brazil.

Caio Guimarães is a Brazilian conductor and educator, currently based in Bloomington, Indiana.   

Caio is an active choral artist in the Midwest and was recently appointed Chorus Master for the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic after having served as their Assistant Conductor and Interim Director. The 2023/2024 CIP program includes Verdi’s Requiem, choruses from Mozart’s Idomeneo, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, among others. In addition, he serves as Music Director at First United Methodist Church in Columbus, IN and Assistant Conductor for the Bloomington Chamber Singers.

He will appear as a Masterclass Fellow in the NCCO 10 National Conference, in Atlanta in November. Caio was honored to conduct in the Graduate Masterclass at the 2023 ACDA National Conference in Cincinnati, OH where he was mentored by Dr. André Thomas. In 2022, he was named a Conducting Fellow in the International Choral Conducting Masterclass at Baylor University, mentored by Dr. Richard Sparks, Dr. Brian Schmidt and Martina Batič.