| Nerine Barrett was born in Jamaica and studied piano
with Ilona Kabos in London. A prize-winner at the Casella Competition (Naples)
and the Young Concert Artists Auditions (New York), Barrett also won the Mozart
Memorial Prize (London) and the first Michaels Award (New York). She gave her
widely noted debut recitals at London's Wigmore Hall and New York's Carnegie
Recital Hall in 1966/67. She has played with many prestigious orchestras
including the London Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the
English Chamber Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the New York Philharmonic,
the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Munich Philharmonic and the
Tonhalle Orchester of Zürich. Among the distinguished conductors she has
performed under are Sir John Barbirolli, Gary Bertini, Pierre Boulez, Dennis
Russell Dauies, Sir Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Eugen Jochum, Rudolf Kempe and
James Levine. Nerine Barrett gained vital artistic impulses at the Marlboro
Music Festiual in Vermont (USA), where she appeared several times and
collaborated with such celebrated interpreters as Rudolf Serkin. Since 1989 she
has been teaching at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, where she was
appointed professor.
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