Composers
Channing Booth
Channing Booth is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Berklee School Of Music program where as a young pianist he not only received his Masters degree, but also developed a reputation as an outstanding pianist in the Afro-Caribbean and jazz genres. Channing Booth has already performed and recorded with the best musician in the Afro-Caribbean industry including Giovanni Hidalgo, Tito Puente, Horace "El Negro" Hernandez, Poncho Sanchez, Francisco Aguabella, Marc Quinones, Robert "Bobby" Allende, Victor Mendoza, Ed Uribe, Casey Scheuerell, Michael Spiro, and Oscar Stagnaro.
Channing Booth has also
performed with jazz greats such as Roy Hardgrove, Mark Whitfield, Loren Pickford,
Don Weed, Greg Hopkins, and Wayne Naus. As a student at Berklee Channing
Booth instructed advanced classes in piano, theory, music history, Jazz and
Afro-Caribbean
studies. Channing also taught advanced courses at the New England Conservatory
of Music. As a clinician and guest artist, Channing has given workshops on
Afro-Caribbean styles at schools such as Berklee College of Music, Eastern
Illinois State University, California State University, and Fresno City College
Channing Booth continues his performing, compositional and research career
where he is now working on an instructional textbook on Afro-Caribbean and
Salsa music styles.
