Doreen Potter

Short Name: Doreen Potter
Full Name: Potter, Doreen, 1925-1980
Birth Year: 1925
Death Year: 1980

Doreen Potter was born in 1925 in Panama, but lived in Jamaica during her childhood. She studied music at St. Katharine's College in Liverpool, UK and at Trinity College, London. She was a violinist, pianist, and teacher. She married Philip Potter, general secretary of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Through her husband she met Fred Kaan and composed tunes for Kaan's texts, as well as other hymn tunes.

Dianne Shapiro, from biography published by Hope Publishing Company (accessed online 8/5/2020)


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