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 New York Times reviewed her performances as “technically precise and musically expressive.” Recordings include a CD as flute and recorder soloist with the American Boychoir (American Songfest), as well as the 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 2012. The recording was reviewed in American Recorder: “rich approach, wonderful results, vigorous yet nuanced playing, lively, clever and substantive conversation….” 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. Ms. Booth conducted the Recorder Orchestra of New York from 2004 to 2008, and she has been the Music Director of the New York Recorder Guild since 2017. www.flute-recorder-deborahbooth.com

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