Guitar

Canadian guitarist Tim Beattie is equally at home as a soloist, chamber recitalist, opera and orchestral collaborator, researcher, and educator. Winner of the 2018 Brussels International Guitar Competition, he has since earned top prizes at competitions in Antwerp, Calgary, Enschede, Hamilton, Leicester, Manhattan, and Uppsala, and in 2025 was named one of CBC Music's '30 Hot Classical Musicians under 30'.

Recent highlights include recital debuts at Carnegie Hall, Wiener Musikverein, and Festival Aix- en-Provence, alongside appearances at festivals in Canada, Finland, Italy, Spain, and the UK. He has toured extensively as a soloist and in collaboration with the Canadian Opera Company, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera, and Quartet Malamatina, and has been heard on Dutch National TV (NPO2), BBC Radio Scotland, and CBC Music.

A scholarship student at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Beattie graduated cum laude (BMus '19) before completing fully-funded postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (MMus '21, Artist Diploma '22). He was the first guitarist invited to join the prestigious Rebanks Fellowship at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music (2022–23).

He is an Associate Teacher and Guitar Co-ordinator at the University of St Andrews Laidlaw Music Centre, founding director of St Andrews GuitarFest and Simcoe Guitar, and a PhD researcher at the University of Surrey's International Guitar Research Centre.