Santiago Beis (1990) is an Uru-Brazilian composer, pianist, audio designer, arranger and artistic researcher.
Holds his Bachelor Degree in composition with Maurício Dottori, Harry Crowl, Márcio Steuernagel, and Felipe de Almeida Ribeiro at Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná – UNESPAR. During this period, worked with new music ensembles such as Orquestra de Câmara da Cidade de Curitiba, Ensemble Nova Camerata, Ensemble Móbile, Quarteto Brasiliana, UM2UO Percussion, Orquestra filarmônica da UFPR, Orquestra de Câmara da Cidade de Curitiba, Orquestra à Base de Sopro de Curitiba, Orquestra à Base de Cordas de Curitiba, and Quinteto Sopro5.

Won First Prizes in composition festivals: First Prize in XXII Funarte Prémio de Composição Clássica, (2017), and First prize in IV Bienal Música Hoje (2017). Played his compositions in MadeinNY JazzGala jazz competition at the Tribeca Center of Performing Arts in New York (2017).
Recent works include the Ballet Concert "Águas do éden e do Hades". Additionally as a producer with Composteira casa de Criação organized workshops for composers in residence such as Marcos Balter, Paulo Rios Filho, Alex Buck, Alexandre Torres Porres, Flora Holderbaum, Marin Herraiz, Guilherme Pelucci and Daniela Veronesi, Mariana Carvalho, Fernando Riederer, Mossa Bildner, Jorge Antunes among other Brazilian Artists.

Currently Santiago is a graduate student for the M.M. in Composition program at The School of Music of the University of Missouri, Columbia, with the mentorship of Carolina Heredia, Yoshiaki Onishi, and Stefan Freund. Santiago is making part of current new music festivals and residences in collaboration with ensembles such as Left Coast Chamber Ensemble through the 2021 RedNote New music Festival, the UM University Philharmonic for the Sinquefield Composition Prize and by the Sheldon Arts Foundation.