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Patricia Prattis Jennings (b. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1941) is a native of Pittsburgh. She was the first African American woman to be awarded a full contract by a major American symphony orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, in 1966, where she was the orchestra's Principal Keyboardist, playing the piano, harpsichord, organ and celesta, until her retirement in 2006.

Jennings made her solo debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1956, at the age of fourteen, performing Mozart's "Coronati read more...

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