Alasdair Beatson

Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson is a prolific soloist and chamber musician, equally adept on modern and historical instruments, and widely respected as both performer and pedagogue. Highlights of 2025 include multiple appearances at London’s Wigmore Hall, performances as concerto soloist with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and engagements at festivals such as Bath Mozartfest, Cumnock Tryst, Musikdorf Ernen, Festivalta, Lewes Chamber Music, Resonances, and Yellow Barn. His musical collaborators include Steven Isserlis, Viktoria Mullova, Pieter Wispelwey, and the Nash Ensemble.

Renowned for his sincerity and adventurous programming, Alasdair champions a broad repertoire with particular focus on Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Schumann; the solo and chamber works of Gabriel Fauré, Bartók, and Janáček; concertos by Bach, Bartók, Britten, Fauré, Hindemith, Messiaen, and Mozart; and contemporary compositions including Thomas Adès’s piano quintet, George Benjamin’s Piano Figures and Shadowlines, and Harrison Birtwistle’s Harrison’s Clocks.

His recent recordings include the solo recital Aus Wien on Pentatone, featuring music by Schumann, Schoenberg, Ravel, Korngold, and Schubert, as well as works by Beethoven and Schubert for violin and fortepiano with Viktoria Mullova on Signum. These join a distinguished discography of solo and chamber recordings across labels including BIS, Champs Hill, Chandos, Claves, Evil Penguin, Onyx, Pentatone, and SOMM.

Alasdair teaches solo piano at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and regularly mentors through Chamber Studio and MusicWorks. From 2012 to 2018, he was founder and artistic director of Musique à Marsac, and since 2019 he has served as artistic director of the chamber music festival at Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland.