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Annie Booth is a respected jazz educator and has appeared as a guest artist-educator at institutions across the U.S. and Canada such as the the UNT Jazz Combo Workshop, South Dakota All-State Jazz Band, Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, The Reno Jazz Festival, The UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, Seattle JazzEd, and more. She is available for guest artist-educator engagements with high schools, universities, and all-state jazz ensembles.
Education
Annie holds a Bachelors of Music Performance and a Masters of Jazz Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado. The subject of her pedagogy-focused Masters thesis was the educational initiative she created in 2017 through the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts, the SheBop Young Women in Jazz Workshop - the first in the state of Colorado exclusively for young female and non-binary musicians.
Annie leading the SheBop Young Women in Jazz Workshop in Carbondale, CO in October 2019. Photo credit: JazzAspen Snowmass
Teaching
Annie Booth is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver, where she teaches jazz composition, arranging, and improvisation.
She is on faculty at the Denver-based non-profit, the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts (CCJA), where she leads small groups, summer camps, and directs the SheBop Young Women in Jazz Workshop and other young women-focused programming.
Annie leading a clinic for jazz pianists, guitarists, and vibraphonists at the Palace City Jazz Festival in Mitchell, South Dakota in February 2020
Annie directing the Jazz Ensemble II at the University of Colorado in a performance of her arrangement of Henry Mancini's "Moon River," November 2019.
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