Draft:Clyde Winkfield

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Clyde Winkfield (June 9, 1918 - ?) was a concert pianist[1] and piano teacher in the Ubited States.[2] He taught at Roosevelt College in Chicago. He taught piano at Kimball Hall in Chicago[3] then in 1946 he joined Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri's teaching staff.[4]

He was born in Watonga, Oklahoma.[5] Innthe 1930s studied at the Chicago College of Music and American Conservatory of Music.[5]

He was friends with Florence B. Price.[6] He was a guest of the Civi Symphony in Philadelphia.[7]

In the early 1940s he was a "Negro Fellow" of the Rosenwald Fund.[5] He received a Civic Achievement Award from Chicago and was a soloist with the Detroit Civic Orchestra.[8]

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