Heathcliffe Auchinachie is an Australian classical and electric guitarist, currently based in Germany. He has developed a reputation as a bold interpreter of both contemporary and canonic classical repertoire, regularly performing in both solo and ensemble contexts. He regularly collaborates with leading Australian and European ensembles such as Ensemble Klangrauschen, Studio Musikfabrik, and Sideband.
Recent highlights include performances of Fausto Romitelli's Index of Metals in Thailand, Sinapore (premiere) and Germany, and the performance of Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans maître at the 2025 Brahms Festival, conducted by Johannes Fischer.

He regularly performs in duo with soprano Chloe Lankshear, in which they explore repertoire from the Renaissance to the contemporary.

He has also premiered many new works by composers from Australia and abroad, including Brad Gill, Peter McNamara, Christine Pan, Bernd Redmann and Dylan Lardelli. 

He has featured at festivals such as Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst, next_generation festival at ZKM Karlsruhe, Huntington Festival, and PGVIM International Symposium.

Heathcliffe began his guitar studies with Georg Mertens before completing a Bachelor of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Vladimir Gorbach. He is currently studying a Masters of Music Performance with Otto Tolonen at Musikhochschule Lübeck. In 2025 he was a participant at the Darmstadt Summer Course in the class of Yaron Deutsch.

He was a participant in the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation program and a recipient of the Deutschland Stipendium.

Heathcliffe has also worked in print and broadcast media. He hosted both the Friday Night Jazz Show and Classical Guitar program on the 2MBS Fine Music Sydney radio station. He has also contributed reviews and articles to publications such as Cut Common, Limelight, and classikON.

He plays a 2025 Dietmar Heubner classical guitar.