Musicians
The musicians, composers and collaborators behind Dan Barrett’s Dan’s new recording – La cétoine qui dort dans le cœur de la rose (works of Dominique Lemaître)
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Dan Barrett
Dan Barrett is a New York based cellist whose playing has been described as “Fire and ice” by The New York Times, and who has been cited as “a brilliant and driven cellist, composer, and conductor” by HuffPost.
His playing has been featured on award-winning and critically hailed movie and documentary soundtracks including Ric Burns’ Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, Andy Warhol, New York, and The Civil War. His performance credits include Radio France Festival, The Gulbenkian Festival, Festival Presences, WQXR, James Joyce’s The Dead on Broadway, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York City Opera, American Ballet Theatre, Brooklyn Philharmonic and more.
Barrett also maintains an active career as a composer and conductor and is creator and director of the International Street Cannibals.
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Dominique Lemaître
Dominique Lemaître (b. 1953) studied literature and musicology at the University of Rouen, and composition with Jacques Petit at the Rouen Conservatory. His catalogue encompasses a wide range of instrumental, vocal, orchestral and ensemble works, as well as collaborations with artists and poets.
His compositions have been performed by the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen, the orchestras of Picardie and Auvergne, the Orchestre philharmonique de Nice, the Colonne and Les Siècles orchestras, Symphonic Orchestra of Bulgaria’s National Radio, and the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain.
He has received commissions from the Ministère de la culture, Radio France, the European Union and numerous orchestras and festivals, and has held composer-in-residence invitations in France and at Oberlin College in Ohio.
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Jed Distler
Jedd Distler is an acclaimed composer, pianist, and Steinway artist, whose early career gained notoriety for transcribing jazz piano solos by Art Tatum and Bill Evans. As a pianist championing new music, his recitals have offered premieres of works by Virgil Thomson, Frederic Rzewski, Lois V. Vierk and many more.
Distler is widely respected for his knowledge of piano literature, and serves as a television commentator in the International Chopin Piano Competition. As Artist-in-Residence for WWFM The Classical Network, Distler is the creator, host and producer of the ASCAP award-winning radio program Between the Keys, and also hosts The Piano Maven.
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Taka Kigawa
T aka Kigawa is a critically acclaimed pianist who has earned outstanding international recognition as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber music artist, performing extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kigawa was awarded First Prize from the 1990 Japan Music Foundation Piano Competition in Tokyo and the Diploma Prize from Spain’s 1998 Concurs Internacional de Música Maria Canals Barcelona. His 2010 New York City recital was chosen by The New York Times as one of the best concerts of that year.
Michiyo Suzuki
Michiyo Suzuki began her musical studies as a native of Japan on multiple instruments. She earned her MFA from Purchase College Conservatory of Music studying with Charles Neidich, and pursued a DMA at SUNY Stony Brook.
As a dedicated recitalist and chamber musician, she performs internationally, with a passion for contemporary repertoire. A member of Absolute Ensemble, CompCord Ensemble, and NY Licorice Ensemble, she has contributed to numerous recordings and festivals with these groups.
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Suliman Tekalli
Suliman Tekalli is a Turkish-American violinist who received the top prize in the 2015 Seoul International Music Competition, and is currently the concertmaster of the Indiana Chamber Orchestra. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and throughout the Americas, Europe, Canada and Asia.
Tekalli has appeared at numerous chamber music festivals, including Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn, and the Banff Centre, and has served as concertmaster of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Sphinx Virtuosi, and the International Sejong Soloists.
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Nikita Yermak
Nikita Yermak is a composer, producer, and violinist/violist whose work has been heard on Warner Classics, CBS, NBC, Naxos, and Albany Records, with concerts in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, John F. Kennedy Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MoMA.
In 2019, with composer, producer and pianist Danica Borisavljević, Yermak co-founded Vessels to Motherland, an electroacoustic and media composer duo. His latest solo recording project is titled TQ+: Works for Solo Violin/Viola/+ by Trans/Queer/+ Composers.
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Brian Keane
Brian Keane is a Grammy-winning producer of hundreds of records, including 37 Billboard top-ten records in their categories, and has served as a producer for numerous record companies including RCA, Sony Classical, Windham Hill and many others.
Keane is also a 20-time Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-winning film composer with more than 500 film score credits. Dan Barrett has played as a cellist on hundreds of Keane’s records and film scores spanning nearly 40 years.
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Jeff Frez-Albrecht
Jeff Frez-Albrecht is an accomplished veteran engineer who has worked on hundreds of award-winning records and film scores as the head engineer for Brian Keane Music, Inc. for over 30 years.
He has also freelanced with several early music ensembles, feature films, Dolby projects, and at the television networks of ABC, NBC, HBO, PBS, and ESPN.