Deborah Booth  
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Deborah Booth is a flute and recorder performer on historical and modern instruments. Her training in flute performance was taken at Cincinnati Conservatory, the University of Kentucky, the Mannes School of Music – Historical Performance Program (NYC) and she has studied with Marion Verbruggen, Sandra Miller, Thomas Nyfenger, and other noted teachers in Amsterdam and New York. 
     Performances include the Handel & Haydn Society, the Orchestra of St. Lukes’,
Bacchanalia Baroque Ensemble, recorder soloist with the Ciompi Quartet, Gotham City Baroque Orchestra, Bach Vespers Period Ensemble, The Long Island Baroque Ensemble, The Ivory Consort, Christmas Revels, Big Apple Baroque Band, Boston Early Music Festival, and director of Ensemble BREVE. 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 “Blue's Clues”. 
     Ms. Booth teaches in New York City, Greenwich, CT, directs the Princeton Recorder Academy, and has taught and played each summer at the Amherst Early Music Festival and numerous other summer festivals such as Pinewoods Early Music Week.
     Conducting experience includes The Recorder Orchestra of New York (RONY) from 2004 to 2008.

  

 
 
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