Welcome to
Daniel Barry’s
Sound Sanctuary
Music that Transcends and Transports
WARNING
You might discover yourself as a single cell amoeba swimming in the primordial depths, delightfully indifferent to everything around you. Or you might open your eyes to the realization that you are a stampeding buffalo running smack dab in the middle of an endless thundering herd. Regardless, the goal of the music is to draw the listener away from the mundane details of life into an arena where they just might catch a glimpse of the divine.
The sound and style… is difficult to pin down, partly because it switches continually from one influence to another. Sometimes it sounds like folk music from the Old Country, other times like a sort of sophisticated modern gypsy music, and again like some Caribbean or South African High Life music. The writing is fresh and imaginative, and has a hip, tongue-in-cheek sort of style that sets it apart from most of the similar efforts of the “third stream” period.
— John Henry / Audiophile Audition
Daniel Barry has conducted concerts of his compositions for large jazz orchestra with professional and student ensembles throughout South America, Europe and North America. He is the recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, a 4Culture grant, and Composer-in-Residence appointments in Campinas, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Visby, Sweden, and Chelva, Spain. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara.