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CodeDS/UK/14567
NameBarrett; Nerine (3 February 1944); Jamaican classical pianist
Dates3 February 1944
GenderFemale (cisgender)
Place of Birth/OriginKingston, Jamaica (born)
RelationshipsDaughter of Mary M McDonald (teacher) and Everald A Barrett (mathematician and physicist)
Spouse of Claus Kanngiesser (German cellist)
BiographyNerine Barrett is a Jamaican classical pianist, one of the few black women who have achieved international recognition as a pianist. She was selected in 1966 by the Young Concert Artists to appear at Carnegie Hall and the following year won the Mozart Memorial Prize of the Haydn-Mozart Society of London. In the 1980s, she began teaching music as a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Saar and later at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. She continued to perform both as a solo artist and as part of the Trio Paideia.

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