Composer. Cellist. New Yorker. Co-Founder of the INTERNATIONAL STREET CANNIBALS.
Cellist/composer/conductor Dan Barrett has played extensively for PBS, particularly as cellist for many of their featured documentaries, such as "The Great Depression," and Ric Burns' "The Way West" and "The History of New York." His solo credits include the Radio France Festival, The Gulbenkian Festival(Lisbon), the Alvin Ailey Dance Company and WQXR, as well as featured solos on record for works of Iannis Xenakis (Mode and Vanderberg labels) and on RCA for the renowned Irish ensemble Cherish The Ladies. Other credits include onstage cellist in James Joyce's "The Dead" on Broadway, Orchestra of St. Luke's, NYC Opera, the American Ballet Theater, Philomusica, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Joe Gallant & Illuminati, Sirius Quartet, and principal positions for the STX Ensemble, the Connecticut Grand Opera, the SEM Ensemble and the Crosstown Ensemble.
THE GROUP DEFINED.....In homage to Montaign's eminently civilized Anthropophagus, THE INTERNATIONAL STREET CANNIBALS offer musical presentations which defy the the hierarchical space of the concert hall, and which represent diverse stages and modalities of composition. Among this Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft of artistic citizens are instrumentalists, composers, painters, film makers and puppeteers -- colleagues who span every age group. THE INTERNATIONAL STREET CANNIBALS were conceived by cellist/composer/journalist Dan Barrett(Wotan "Lefty" De Sade) and are steered by CoDirectors and composers Gene "Noizepunk" Pritsker, and Franz Hackl.
