Guitar

Tim Beattie is a Canadian guitarist who gained international attention after winning the 2018 Brussels International Guitar Competition. He has since performed across Europe and North America, earning top prizes at competitions in Antwerp, Calgary, Manhattan, Uppsala, and more.

Highlights of his 2024–25 season include solo debuts at Carnegie Hall (NYC), Festival Corde D’Autunno (Milan), Áureo Herrero Festival (Spain), alongside tours throughout the UK and Canada with the RSNO, Scottish Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and Quartet Malamatina.

Beattie was a scholarship student at the Amsterdam Conservatory, where he completed his BMus in 2019 with honours (cum laude). He undertook fully-funded postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, earning an MMus in 2021 and an Artist Diploma in 2022. In 2022, he also became the only guitarist ever invited to join the prestigious Rebanks Family Fellowship at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

He is currently Associate Teacher of guitar at the University of St Andrews and director of the St Andrews GuitarFest.