Dan Brenner


Dan Brenner is an American composer, musician, and psychiatrist. Brenner was a member of the band Magnet, with Moe Tucker in the late 1990s, and of the rap/performance-art band with his brother, filmmaker from 1985-1988. He was a member of the Boston bands Green Fuse and Gunga Din in the early 1990s, and prior to that, while a student at Harvard College, ,. Brenner has written the scores for three feature films, including , , and . Brenner also co-wrote the script for The Riddle, for which he was awarded the 2010 Mario Puzo Screenplay Award. Some of Brenner's film composition is credited as "Danny Brenner." He was as Producer on the Foggy Notion CD .
In 2011, Brenner released a solo CD, Little Dark Angel, produced by 12-time Grammy Winner . Little Dark Angel featured Larry Campbell, , Shawn Pelton, , and former Morphine member Dana Colley. Several songs from Little Dark Angel received airplay on American college radio stations, reaching the top 10 at 6 stations, and peaking at #2 on WVIC in Ithaca NY.

Personal life

Dan Brenner was born in New York City, attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights, and graduated from Harvard College. Brenner later attended medical school, and was a resident in Psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital from 1995-2000. He was a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1995-2010, and received psychoanalytic training at the . He is married to , an Associate Professor of Psychology at Boston University.

Discography

Solo

I Have a copy of this record and it is a double EP
The actual songs are "Dairy Queen", "Sleeping Sara", "Death Dirge", and "Summertime"
AND the date on it is 1988

The Love Monsters

Composer