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Darren Barrett (b. 1967 England) is a Boston, Massachusetts-based jazz musician who won the 1997 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, and teaches at Berklee College of Music.
Biography
Barrett was raised in Toronto, Canada, of Jamaican parents. He attended Humber College, in Toronto, winning the Boddington's Music Brass Award for excellence in performance. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Professional Music from the Berklee College of Music in 1990. He received "an MA in Jazz Performance in 1993, and an MS in Music Education from Queens College in 1995." In addition to his work at Queens, he also attended the New England Conservatory of Music.
He is an associate professor at his alma mater, Berklee.
He frequently plays at Wally's Cafe in Boston.
