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| Born | 3 February 1944 Kingston, Colony of Jamaica, British Empire |
| Other names | Nerine Barrett-Kanngiesser, Nerine Barrett-Kanngießer |
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Nerine Barrett (born 3 February 1944) is a Jamaican classical pianist, one of the few black women who have achieved international recognition as a pianist.[Notes 1] 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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