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Annie Booth’s experience as a jazz educator is extensive, diverse, and driven by her mission to create more equitable and inclusive environments in jazz. She currently serves on the faculty of the Jazz & Commercial Music Program at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music where she teaches courses in jazz arranging, jazz composition, jazz improvisation, and jazz piano, directs the Lamont Jazz Orchestra, and teaches private instruction in jazz composition.

Annie appears across North America at educational jazz festivals and university jazz studies programs as a guest artist-educator she is a frequent guest director of All-State jazz ensembles and regional honor jazz bands.

In 2017, Annie created the SheBop Young Women In Jazz Workshop through the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts, creating more inclusivity in jazz and inspiring more young women to find self-expression through the art form. In the years since, the two-day workshop has taken place ten times across the state of Colorado, creating an important ecosystem of female mentors and mentees and effecting a meaningful increase in the number of young women who not only begin learning to play jazz but continue on at the university and professional level.

Above all, Annie Booth is proud to call herself a warm and empathetic educator who prioritizes clear communication and an organized delivery of content.

EDUCATION

Annie Booth holds a Master of Music degree in Jazz Performance & Pedagogy from the University of Colorado-Boulder Thompson Jazz Studies Program, for which she wrote a pedagogy-focused thesis about the SheBop Young Women in Jazz Workshop. Read that thesis here. She also earned her Bachelor of Music in Jazz Piano Performance degree and Minor degree in French Language from the University of Colorado-Boulder.