Chloe Youtsey

Chloe Youtsey returned to the Hampton Roads area in 2022 after spending four years in Austin, Texas. A multi-talented creative, she is a songwriter, jazz musician, visual artist, and children’s book author. After earning her B.M. in Jazz Studies from JMU in 2017, her time in Austin laid the foundation for her career as both a singer-songwriter and a sought-after jazz sideman for many prominent Texas & nationally renown instrumentalists. In 2018, was selected to attend the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. From 2021 to 2024, she served as the music director for Mozart’s in Austin, and in 2023, she was named the winner of the Zeiders American Dream Theater’s Proteus Contest. Most recently, in November 2024, she debuted her first European performances during a two-week recording and tour in Barcelona, Spain. In January 2025, she was nominated for the Veer Awards in the “Best in Jazz Traditional” category, recognizing her as one of the area’s most prominent players, and she is a regular guest with the band, Good Shot Judy. Find it all in one place at chloeyoutsey.com, to discover new music and to explore her latest project, Little Monster, a self-illustrated children's book.