A man with short hair and a beard standing outdoors in front of a large stone castle with towers and turrets, surrounded by a well-maintained garden with green bushes and purple flowers, under a partly cloudy sky.

About Cameron Burns

Cameron is deeply passionate about Scotland.  He loves to share his knowledge and experience with visitors, helping them to make their own connections with the land, the history and culture, as well as supporting the many amazing local businesses here. He is especially interested in helping people track down their ancestral heritage.

His family are Scottish but he was raised in Manchester and London. He read music at New College Oxford and spent most of his life working as an opera conductor, vocal coach and pianist. He made his conducting debut with the London Symphony Orchestra and worked for Royal Opera House, Mariinsky Theatre, Staatsoper Hannover (where he was Kapellmeister for 5 years), English National Opera, BBC Proms, as well as  engagements in the USA, Japan, The Netherlands, Italy, Belgium,  Portugal and Bulgaria. 

Cameron runs social media pages for the Isles of Mull, Iona and Ulva and offers content creation services via Scotland Live and his own page cam.tours.scotland.

He drives a Land Rover Defender 110 and lives in Edinburgh with his husband Lincoln, the founder of Scotland Live.