Tom Beets was born in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, in 1983. At an early age he started to play the recorder enthusiastically. He has finished his recorder studies at the Lemmensinstitute in Leuven (B) with Bart Spanhove and Bart Coen and is specialising at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya (Sp) with Pedro Memelsdorff.

Apart from the usual baroque repertoire his interest/focus lies on music history and medieval music performance. Concerts and concours, both solo as in various ensembles, have led him to every part of Europe. Tom is a member of various Dutch ensembles and took masterclasses with Kees Boeke, Fumiharu Yoshimine, Marion Verbruggen and Andrew-Lawrence King as personal highlights. From 2007 on, he travels around the world with the Flanders Recorder Quartet.