Timotheos Stylianides was born in Cyprus in 1982 and took his first guitar lessons at the age of eleven. In 2002 he commenced his studies at the University of Hull in G. Britain where he focused on Performance, Composition, Orchestration and Psychology of Music. At the same time he studied the guitar under the guidance of Tom McKinney and Graig Ogden. He then followed postgraduate studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where his guitar teachers were Eleftheria Kotzia and John Mills. He graduated with an MMus in Performace.

During his studies he participated in various festivals and seminars in which he took advice from many accomplished artists including Leo Brouwer, David Russel, Dusan Bogdanovic, Carlo Marchione, Aniello Desiderio and Zoran Dukic. Further, Timotheos Stylianides studied at the Real Cοnservatorio Superior de Musica de Madrid in Spain in the framework of the Erasmus Student Exchange programme, where he took guitar lessons from Jose Luis Rodrigo.
After a competition in May 2006 he was awarded the John Mills Guitar Prize.

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