About Madison
I've been playing the flute for about 18 years and I have been teaching music for over a decade! Music has been a part of my life before I can remember, and by the time I was 14 years old, I knew I wanted to teach and perform professionally. My passion for helping musicians cultivate their own moments of creativity, inspiration, and confidence has become one of the most fulfilling joys of my life. For this reason, I offer private flute lessons & workshops in the greater Omaha-area, and I offer Body Mapping lessons, workshops, and clinics locally and online nationally.
Dr. Madi, the Flute Teacher
When I moved to Omaha in 2024, I desired to create a supportive space for flutists to work towards their musical goals. Each flutist has their own dreams and aspirations, and I want to meet them where they are with individualized instruction and help them move forward.
For this reason, I founded the Omaha Flute Institute, a top private flute studio for flutists of all ages and experience levels in the greater Omaha, Nebraska area. (I've taught ages 7 to 70 - flute is for everyone!) The Omaha Flute Institute provides opportunities for flutists to engage in weekly private lessons, studio recitals, and local workshops like Omaha Flute Fest & Omaha Flute Focus.
Additionally, I teach as a co-founder and Master Artist for the Elevating Flutistry Intensive, a summer camp for flutists in Boise, ID and Omaha, NE.
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It is my primary goal to provide high-quality flute education for any flutist who is eager to learn and express themselves through music. You can learn more about the Omaha Flute Institute and my teaching philosophy here.
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Madison Booth, Body Mapping Educator
I've always been a little intrigued by human anatomy, but I definitely wasn't going to make it in the medical field - blood and broken bones? No, thank you!!!
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So when I found Body Mapping in 2016, I felt like I had found a way to satiate my desire to understand the "how" behind my body's ability to make music! What I didn't foresee was a path forward from a playing-related injury that took me off my instrument for the first semester of my master's degree.
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Grab some popcorn, this one's a doozy...​
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I had been playing with discomfort and tension for most of my performing career, but I didn't understand how much that was limiting my musical abilities or how it would build to a full-blown injury that would take me away from the flute. ​
Injury can often feel like a career-ending event for musicians...​
But it doesn't always have to be, and it certainly didn't have to end my career. Body Mapping gave me new understanding and awareness of my body in movement. This allowed me to make changes in my movement habits that I'm still benefitting from today. I no longer play in pain or discomfort - wahoo!!! And even more unexpectedly, I am able to use my Body Mapping training to improve my musicianship and technique. (I'm not even kidding when I tell you that Body Mapping helped me find a beautiful, resonant sound that I had been searching for the entirety of my academic studies.)
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I noticed similar impacts in my students as I incorporated Body Mapping into my pedagogy, and this eventually led to a qualitative research project exploring the impacts of Body Mapping as a tool for flute tone development.
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Flash forward to today and I am fully convinced that Body Mapping is not only a way for musicians (beginners through professionals) to find freer, easier movement that helps prevent injury, but is also a way to enhance and augment artistry. I'd love to help you do the same! Find out how by clicking the button below.​​
And now for the more formal version...
Enraptured with a passion for flute performance and pedagogy, Madison Booth is an engaging and versatile performer and pedagogue. She is the Principal Flute of the Knox-Galesburg Symphony. As a sought-after artist, Madison has also performed with the 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.
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Madison has found success and national recognition in several competitive events. After advancing through four rounds of performances, she recently 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.
As a co-founder of the Payadora Trio - a flute, saxophone, and piano ensemble - Madison maintains an active performance schedule. Dedicated to the performance and commissioning of works written by underrepresented composers, the Payadora Trio has commissioned works including two arrangements by Jesús Fuentes and a piece by Felipe Hoyos González. Madison performed with the Payadora Trio at the 2024 North American Saxophone Alliance conference and the National Flute Association convention in August 2024.
Madison maintains a dynamic teaching presence in her community through the Omaha Flute Institute, a first-rate music education experience for flutists in Omaha, Nebraska, through private lessons, group lessons, workshops, studio performances, and more. Additionally, she co-founded and teaches at the Elevating Flutistry Intensive, an annual week-long workshop for flutists of all ages and abilities in Boise, Idaho. Madison previously taught as the graduate teaching assistant for the University of Illinois Flute Studio. Her responsibilities included teaching applied lessons and studio masterclasses to undergraduate Music Education majors, Music Performance majors, and non-music majors. She also designed curriculum for and taught supplementary flute methods courses for Music Education students whose primary instrument was not flute. Madison has maintained an engaging and inclusive private flute studio in her local communities since 2014.
In addition to her performance achievements, Madison has sought out arts administration opportunities as the 2019 College Music Society intern for the College Music Symposium journal, and a 2019 intern for the National Flute Association Convention. In 2020, Madison was one of two selected interns for the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Show in Anaheim, California through which she also received the 2020 NAMM President's Innovation Award.
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Recognized for her academic achievements, she was selected as the 2024 graduate recipient of the Mark H. Hindsley award for her outstanding artistic contributions to and leadership in the Illinois Wind Symphony. She was also the 2020 Presser Scholar Award recipient for her exceptional academic work as an undergraduate music student at Boise State University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.
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A student of Jonathan Keeble and Nicole Molumby, Madison holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Formance and Literature with a cognate in Arts Administration (2025) and a Master of Music (2022) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2025), and undergraduate degrees in Music Education and Flute Performance from Boise State University (2020).