Beth Chitwood

About

Beth Chitwood Dean is an artist, performer, educator, and musician based in Lexington, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee. She has over 45 years of experience with a wide variety of music techniques.

Her credits include writing, producing, and performing the song One That Got Away for the Hallmark movie Midway to Love. 

Beth has performed in hundreds of music venues, performing to audiences of all sizes, and is currently performing in a Fleetwood Mac cover band: World Turning, the Fleetwood Mac Experience in Nashville. 

She has over 30 years of experience teaching piano and voice lessons to students of all ages. A recipient and repeat nominee of the Jay Flippin Award for Music Educators, she’s the mastermind behind STUDIO 88, where she and a hand-curated team of professional artists teach private and group lessons in voice, piano, guitar, drums, acting, art and music recording and production. Beth and STUDIO 88 are three-time recipients of Lexington’s Top Rated Business Awards.

When she isn’t teaching or performing, Beth is riding her Harley Davidson, playing piano and songwriting, or cuddling with her dalmatians. 

Beth Dean is a singer, pianist, songwriter, music educator, director, and studio owner based in Lexington, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee. For over thirty years she’s entertained audiences throughout the Southeast.

Beth appears regularly playing  keyboards and singing the part of Christine McVie with “World Turning” in Nashville and across the US. 

Recent credits include composing, producing and performing her song, The One That Got Away, for the 2019 Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Movie “Midway to Love” starring Rachel Hendrix, Daniel Stine, and Joe Gatton.  She’s currently recording a new album, both in Lexington and in Peter Frampton’s Nashville studio. 

A recipient and repeat nominee of the Jay Flippin Award for Music Educators, for years Beth has provided professional-grade training for young musicians from the performance education studio she master-minded, STUDIO 88. As a three-time recipient of Lexington’s Top Rated Business Awards, she personally trains pianists and vocalists for the stage and has a team of working artists who provide training in vocal music, recording and producing, acting and drama, guitar, drums, art, and music theory. 

“I did not think I would ever own a music studio, but as I look through my many years of practice to earn my piano performance degree; teaching at Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary Catholic School; directing the music program at Crossroads Church for 10 years; and performing all over the country, I realized that sharing my gift and helping others to love music and explore their own talents is what I truly love.” Beth Chitwood Dean 

Beth Dean is an expert in planning and performing music for weddings and wedding receptions, often composing original songs for the bride and groom and arranging for five-to-ten-piece ensembles who perform at diverse wedding venues around the region and out of state.

She has a bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from Eastern Kentucky University.