RENAISSANCE STRING QUARTET

RANDALL GOOSBY, violin

JEREMIAH BLACKLOW, violin

An avid chamber musician and scholar, Jeremiah Blacklow began studying violin when he was three. As a performer, he has taken the stage at important cultural centers across the globe including Incheon’s Tri-Bowl, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, New York’s Weill Hall, Marlboro Music, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jeremiah received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College majoring in Slavic Languages and Literature and completed his Masters in violin performance at the Juilliard School with the support of Dorothy Starling and Fidelity Foundation Scholarships. Jeremiah owes much of his musical growth to devoted teachers Catherine Cho and Itzhak Perlman, who both guided him for over a decade. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree as a Graduate Center Fellow at City University of New York, where he studies with Mark Steinberg.
Jeremiah is a founding member of the Renaissance String Quartet, alongside violinist Randall Goosby, cellist Daniel Hass, and violist Jameel Martin. His work with the quartet has helped fulfill his passion for chamber music and his dedication to community engagement. As a part of every concert tour, the quartet connects with local schools and youth programs to give masterclasses and teach workshops. Jeremiah is violin faculty at Hunter College and has been a teacher for many young students through music programs at Zeta Charter Schools. He is committed to sharing the artistic expression of classical music with people from all communities.
Jeremiah is also the Principal Second Violin of the Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra. He plays an 1856 Giuseppe Rocca violin, formerly used by legendary violinist Maud Powell. 

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JAMEEL MARTIN, viola

Jameel Martin is an accomplished violist and writer. He made his solo debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17 and has performed chamber music for audiences around the world. His stage play, “Ransom Place,” premiered at the Onyx Theater Festival of Indianapolis in the fall of 2022. It was subsequently published in the inaugural issue of NYC based A Common Well Journal in the fall of 2023. He and cellist/composer, Daniel Hass, were selected as part of the 2023 cohort of librettist/composer teams for Overtone Industries’ Original Vision development workshop, to transform the play into an opera. His queer operatic adaptation of Janacek’s song cycle, “The Diary of One Who Disappeared,” in collaboration with opera director Victoria Putterman, premiered in Valdres, Norway, in the summer of 2023. In January, he co-curated and performed a multi-disciplinary recital program with violinist, Randall Goosby, entitled “Intersections: Black Music and Words,” at London’s Southbank Centre.

Jameel is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he completed his pre-college and undergraduate studies with Heidi Castleman and studied chamber music with Itzhak Perlman, Joel Krosnick, Joseph Lin, and Sylvia Rosenberg. Under the guidance of Mónica De la Torre and Ben Lerner, he received an MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College, where he was also an Adjunct Lecturer of English Composition and editor-in-chief/poetry editor of The Brooklyn Review. Jameel is currently pursuing an MA in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he is the research assistant to his advisor, Fred Moten. His poetry, criticism, and interviews can be found in A Common Well Journal, Archway Editions Journal, The Brooklyn Review, and Fort Myers Review.

DANIEL HASS, cello

Canadian cellist and composer Daniel Hass has built an impressive career that encompasses a diverse range of pursuits, genres, and achievements. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras across Canada, the Unites States, and Europe; has been commissioned by the Glenn Gould Foundation, Random Access Music, Tribeca New Music, and the Revolve Dance Program; and has received awards and grants from institutions such as the Stulberg Competition, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Sylva Gelber Foundation.

Daniel is a founding member of the Renaissance String Quartet, alongside violinists Randall Goosby and Jeremiah Blacklow, and violist Jameel Martin. The quartet had its debut recital in New York in April of 2023, where they premiered Daniel’s first string quartet, “Love and Levity.” A month later they went on an extensive tour of Jamaica, performing and teaching at schools across the country. At the their recital in Kingston, which benefited Jamaica Red Cross and the Immaculate Conception High School Orchestra, the quartet performed a variety of classical and Jamaican compositions, including Daniel’s arrangements of “Satisfy My Soul” by Bob Marley and “Many Rivers to Cross” by Jimmy Cliff.

A sought-after chamber musician in New York, Daniel frequently performs as a guest artist with the Jupiter Chamber Players, the Omega Ensemble, and Random Access Music. Uniquely versatile as cellist, Daniel often performs and records with modern jazz ensembles such as Orlando Furioso (winner of the 2023 German Jazz awards) and Phillip Golub’s Abiding Memory Quintet, as well as with pop and folk artists such as May Rio, Lila Dupont, and Sloppy Jane.

Daniel is an alum of the Perlman Music Program. He graduated from Juilliard in 2017 as a recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, and in 2021 with a Master's Degree. He studied with cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, and violinists Areta Zhulla and Itzhak Perlman. He plays the 1730 ‘Newland’ Joannes Franciscus Celoniatus cello from Turin, Italy, on generous loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.    

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