Rachel Beetz was born in Illinois, USA in 1987 into a farming family. She graduated with distinction from Indiana University in the studio of Kathryn Lukas in 2009. The following fall Rachel moved to Baltimore to study with Lisa Cella at the University of Maryland – Baltimore County where she completed a Certificate in American Contemporary Music in 2010. Rachel currently resides in San Diego where she is under the tutelage of John Fonville at the University of California, San Diego.