Annie Booth will perform with the Reno Jazz Orchestra | Carson City Nevada News

The Reno Jazz Orchestra will perform original works for big band and small group by Denver-based composer and pianist Annie Booth, who will conduct and perform with the Orchestra on Saturday, February 12, 2022, at the University of Nevada, Reno, Nightingale Lobby.

“Annie Booth creates a modern sound by using artful rhythms and beautifully layered harmony in her compositions,” said Jonathan Phillips, co-guest conductor for the event, which begins at 4:00 p.m.

Booth is a versatile jazz composer, arranger and pianist based in Denver, Colorado. She composes and plays in several projects she directs, including Annie Booth Trio, Annie Booth Sextet and Annie Booth Big Band. Booth has received national recognition for his work from the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers, Downbeat Magazine, Jazz Education Network, International Association of Jazz Arrangers and Conductors, and Chamber Music America, among others. .

When Booth isn’t performing or composing, she loves working with the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts (CCJA), an organization of which she is a former and current faculty member. In 2017, in collaboration with CCJA, she created Colorado’s first-ever jazz camp exclusively for young women, the SheBop Young Women in Jazz Workshop. She is passionately passionate about empowering the next generation of young women to express themselves through the art form of jazz.

Booth visits the Reno, Nevada area as a guest clinician at the 22nd annual Jazz in the Schools program. Prior to the concert, more than 300 middle and high school musicians from more than a dozen northern Nevada school jazz bands will perform for free at the Nightingale Concert Hall at the University of Nevada in Reno.

“This program is part of the community outreach efforts of the Reno Jazz Orchestra. The one-day event helps prepare school groups to participate in the Reno Jazz Festival each spring and introduces them to UNR and the UNR Jazz Faculty,” said Nichole Heglund, Education Manager for the Reno Jazz Orchestra.

During this year’s Jazz at School program, guest clinicians Annie Booth, along with Gio Washington-Wright and Dr. Brian Landrus, will listen to each youth group or choir and then provide feedback during private clinics throughout of the day.

Full Jazz in the Schools details and concert tickets are available at RenoJazzOrchestra.org.