Madison Booth
Flute Instructor
Enraptured with a passion for flute performance and pedagogy, Dr. Madison Booth is an engaging and versatile performer and pedagogue. As a sought-after artist, Madison has performed with the Knox-Galesburg Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Sinfonia da Camera, and Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra. Madison was selected as a Flute Fellow with the National Repertory Orchestra in Summer 2023. Additionally, she was featured as a concerto soloist with the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra in November 2023 performing Carl Nielsen's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra. In 2019, she performed Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for Flautino, RV 443 with the Treasure Valley Symphony in Oregon.
Madison maintains an active performance schedule as a co-founder of the Payadora Trio, a flute, saxophone, and piano ensemble dedicated to the performance and commissioning of works written by underrepresented composers. The trio released their debut album, Payadora, in July 2025 and received two Global Music Awards for their performance.
Madison has found success and national recognition in several competitive events. After advancing through four rounds of performances, she won Third Prize for the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition in August 2024. In 2023, she was one of two winners of the University of Illinois Concerto Competition, and she won Second Prize in the 2023 Mid-South Young Artist Competition. Additionally, Madison performed as Principal Flute in the 2019 National Flute Association’s Collegiate Flute Choir and won First Prize in the 2017 Montana Flute Association Young Artist Competition.
Madison maintains a dynamic teaching presence in her community through the Omaha Flute Institute and provides exemplary flute education experience for flutists in Omaha, Nebraska, through private lessons, group lessons, workshops, studio performances, and more. Her students have successfully auditioned into top honor bands and been accepted into college music programs across the country. Additionally, she co-founded and teaches at the Elevating Flutistry Intensive, a week-long workshop for flutists of all ages and abilities held annually in Boise, Idaho and Omaha, Nebraska. Madison has taught as the interim Professor of Flute at the University of Nebraska-Omaha where she taught applied lessons and studio masterclasses to collegiate Music Education, Music Performance, and Music Studies majors. Madison has maintained an engaging and inclusive private flute studio in her local communities since 2014.
As a Licensed Body Mapping Educator through the Association for Body Mapping Education, Madison invites all musicians to access artistry and expression through Body Mapping workshops and private lessons. Passionate about educating musicians about functional anatomy and movement, Madison is an active clinician and has been invited to present workshops to music students, professionals, and organizations including the Omaha Conservatory of Music Suzuki Institute, the Flute Society of St. Louis Flute Day 2026, the University of Nebraska-Omaha School of Music, and the Greater Des Moines Flute Choir.