Annie Booth is a versatile and award-winning composer, arranger, and jazz pianist. She has received international recognition for her work as a composer/arranger with awards and grants from the likes of Chamber Music America, ASCAP, the International Alliance for Women in Music, Downbeat Magazine, the International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers, and many more.

Her writing spans from small group jazz to large jazz ensemble to chamber and symphonic works. She has been commissioned to compose new, original works by the University of New Hampshire Jazz Studies, the University of North Florida Concert Band, Reno Jazz Festival, Stratus Chamber Orchestra, the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra (CJOR), the University of Denver, and many others. Her unique large scale chamber jazz suite, Flowers of Evil, is an otherworldly song cycle of original music set to the beautifully dark poetry of 19th century French poet, Charles Baudelaire. The project was released on CD and digital platforms worldwide in October 2023.

As a bandleader/performer, Annie leads several projects including the Annie Booth Trio, the Annie Booth Sextet, and the Annie Booth Big Band. She has released seven albums as a bandleader and has appeared on more than a dozen as a side-musician. Her latest release with her trio — featuring longtime musical collaborators Patrick McDevitt (bass) and Alejandro Castaño (drums) — is a collection of her innovative interpretations of the Beatles catalogue, entitled Here, There and Everywhere: The Beatles Songbook (Live).

Annie Booth is a respected jazz educator and is currently on faculty at the Jazz and Commercial Music Program at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. She has been a guest director of All-State Jazz Ensembles across the country including South Dakota (2023), California (2025) and Iowa (2025) and has appeared as a guest artist-educator/conductor at dozens of institutions including the University of New Hampshire, the University of North Texas, the Reno Jazz Festival, Fresno State Jazz Festival, the UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Seattle JazzEd, and many more. For nearly a decade she has worked with students in the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts (CCJA) directing combos, teaching at summer camps, and leading the SheBop Young Women in Jazz Workshop, which she created and about which she wrote her pedagogy-focused master’s thesis. Booth holds a Master of Music degree in Jazz Performance & Pedagogy, Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Piano Performance, and Minor in French Language degree from the University of Colorado-Boulder

In 2023, she and fellow composer/arranger Alan Baylock launched Brava Jazz Publishing, the only outlet of its kind that supports and champions women composers and arrangers in jazz by creating a platform for their music to be widely distributed and published.