Member
Contact Information
boothflutes@gmail.comhttp://www.flute-recorder-deborahbooth.com
Location
New York
New York
Early Music Skills & Interests
Conductor, Flute, Recorder, Renaissance WindsEarly Music Affiliations
Concert Producer, Conductor, Educator, Music/Artistic Director, Performer
Biography
Deborah Booth is a recorder and flute performer and teacher based in New York City, active on both historical and modern instruments. Performances include the Handel & Haydn Society, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Boston Early Music Festival, Amherst Early Music, Trinity Bach Vespers (NYC), and many others. Ms. Booth is the co-founder and director of Ensemble BREVE and has toured extensively in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and South America. In 2016 Ms. Booth was the flute soloist for Mozart’s Concerto in G major with Big Apple Baroque.
The Times reviewed her performances as “technically precise and musically expressive”. Recordings include a CD as flute and recorder soloist with the American Boy Choir (American Songfest), as well as soundtrack for the television show Blues Clues.
Conversations a recording of 17th and 18th century music for recorder and flute with harpsichord, organ, viola da gamba, cello, and bassoon was released in September of 2012. The recording was reviewed in American Recorder :
“rich approach, wonderful results, vigorous yet nuanced playing, lively, clever and substantive conversation….”
Conducting experience includes The Recorder Orchestra of New York (RONY) from 2004 to 2008. Ms. Booth is in demand as a private teacher and nationally as a workshop director for the American Recorder Society and the National Flute Association, and has taught on the faculty of Marymount Manhattan College. At the present time Ms. Booth is the music director and the founder of the New York Recorder Guild (from 2017 to present).
website: www.flute-recorder-deborahbooth.com
you tube channel: www.youtube.com/@DeborahBoothRecorder
