PMP ALUMNI SPECIAL PERFORMANCE
Randall Goosby, violin; Jeremiah Blacklow, violin; Jameel Martin, viola; Daniel Hass, cello
Renaissance Quartet
Monday, March 24, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Collaboration
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
Tickets and info will be available in November 2024
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Manatee Performing Arts Center, Stone Hall
502 3rd Ave W, Bradenton, FL 34205
Tickets: $32-$42
Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 7:30 PM
First Presbyterian Church
2050 Oak Street, Sarasota, FL 34237
$30 General Admission | $40 VIP – Front Rows
New! $10 Youth Tickets (under 21)
All ticket purchases are final sales and cannot be refunded.
About Renaissance Quartet
The Renaissance String Quartet was founded by violinists Randall Goosby and Jeremiah Blacklow, violist Jameel Martin, and cellist Daniel Hass, all graduates of the Juilliard School and the Perlman Music Program. The New York City based quartet came together on the basis of over a decade of friendship and collaboration between the four members.
In line with their desire to create unique concert experiences, and buoyed by violist Jameel Martin’s ability to make friends with anyone and everyone, their first public performance as the Renaissance Quartet took place at the Hungarian Pastry Shop, a beloved and historic café on the Upper West Side. The unique setting played host to an earnest and weighty program of Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet, Brahms’ Quartet in A minor, and Beethoven’s 7-movement behemoth, the quartet Opus 131.
While they champion the quartets of Beethoven and Mozart, the quartet feels a responsibility to command a diverse repertoire of classic, underrepresented, and new works, so they can contribute to the reclamation, redefinition, and continuation of a musical tradition that belongs to all of us. They represent and articulate an inclusive vision of the future of classical music, which sees a culture of music wherein all lives and histories are welcomed and celebrated.
The quartet last appeared in Sarasota in February of 2022. In the spring of 2023, the quartet embarked on an inspiring tour of Jamaica, performing and teaching at schools across the country. The tour culminated in a recital benefiting Jamaica Red Cross and the Immaculate Conception High School Orchestra. They performed a variety of classical and Jamaican compositions, including cellist Daniel Hass’s kaleidoscopic quartet, “Love and Levity,” and original arrangements of Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff songs. This residency exemplifies the kind of meaningful relationships the quartet seeks to foster with audiences around the world, bringing communities together through the power of music.
Through the lens of rebirth, the Renaissance Quartet will continue reimagining the role of the string quartet as a vehicle for change, and by doing so inspire audiences, students, and collaborators to do the same.
Randall Goosby, violin
Signed exclusively to Decca Classics in 2020 at the age of 24, American violinist Randall Goosby is acclaimed for the sensitivity and intensity of his music. He is also known for his determination to make music more inclusive and accessible, and for bringing the music of under-represented composers to light.
Randall Goosby has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, Baltimore Symphony under Dalia Stasevska, Detroit Symphony under Jader Bignamini, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra. His recital appearances include London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s 92nd Street Y, San Francisco Symphony’s Davies Symphony Hall and Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
In 2021 Goosby’s debut album for Decca was released. Roots is a celebration of African-American music which explores its evolution from the spiritual through to present-day compositions. Collaborating with pianist Zhu Wang, Goosby pays homage to the pioneering artists that paved the way for artists of color. It features three world-premiere recordings of music by African-American composer Florence Price, and includes works by composers William Grant Still and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, plus a commissioned piece by acclaimed double bassist Xavier Foley, a fellow Sphinx, and Perlman Music Program alumnus.
Goosby made his debut with the Jacksonville Symphony at age nine. At age 13, he performed with the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert at Avery Fisher Hall and is the youngest artist ever to win the Sphinx Concerto Competition. He is a recipient of Sphinx’s Isaac Stern Award.
A graduate of the Juilliard School, he is pursuing an Artist Diploma under Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho. An active chamber musician, he has spent his summers studying at the Perlman Music Program, Verbier Festival Academy and Mozarteum Summer Academy among others.
He performs on the Stradivarius violin “Strauss” Cremona, 1708, on loan through the generous efforts of The Samsung Foundation of Culture of Korea.
Jeremiah Blacklow, violin
An avid chamber musician and scholar, violinist Jeremiah Blacklow is known for his sincere playing and uniquely personal style. He began studying the violin when he was three, and debuted in Carnegie’s Weill Hall at the age of eight. As a performer, Jeremiah has taken the stage at important cultural centers across the globe including Incheon’s Tri-Bowl, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Neue Galerie.
Jeremiah was concertmaster of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra from 2018-20, while completing a Bachelor’s degree in Slavic Languages and Literature at Harvard College. During the time of his Master’s studies at Juilliard (2020-22), he was concertmaster of The Juilliard Orchestra on multiple occasions. In addition to his Master’s degree in Violin Performance, he also received a Career Grant from the school this spring. His education at Juilliard was made possible by the support of a Fidelity Foundation Scholarship and the Dorothy Starling Scholarship, and he owes much of his musical growth to devoted teachers Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho, who have both guided him for over a decade.
Jeremiah is committed to sharing his love for classical music with the community. Recently, he has toured with Project Music Heals Us, a non-profit organization which brings high-quality live music performances to marginalized communities. Over the past five years, Jeremiah and his childhood friend, cellist/pianist Noah Krauss, have performed frequently together as a violin-piano duo. The Blacklow-Krauss Duo has presented concerts throughout the Northeast, and self-produced an album of Brahms and Bartok Sonatas.
Jeremiah is a featured artist of The Omega Ensemble and the second violinist of the Renaissance Quartet with fellow founding members and alumni of the Perlman Music Program Randall Goosby, Daniel Hass, and Jameel Martin. In 2022, he won Grand Prix at the Marker and Pioneer International Music Competition. He plays an 1856 Giuseppe Rocca violin, formerly used by legendary violinist Maud Powell.
Jameel Martin, viola
Jameel Martin has performed as a soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Indianapolis, and has performed for audiences in Austria, China, Canada, Germany, Israel, and across the United States. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he completed his pre-college and undergraduate studies. He is the founding violist of the Renaissance Quartet, alongside violinists Randall Goosby and Jeremiah Blacklow, and cellist Daniel Hass, having attended together the Perlman Music Program’s Summer Music School, Chamber Music Workshop, and repeated residencies in Sarasota and Israel.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, where he completed his pre-college and undergraduate studies with Heidi Castleman, and later with Steven Tenenbom, he studied chamber music under the guidance of Itzhak Perlman, Joel Krosnick, Joseph Lin, and Sylvia Rosenberg. Jameel is an alum of such programs as the Heifetz International Music Institute, Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artists Program, and the Perlman Music Program, which allowed him to study and collaborate with renowned teachers such as Pinchas Zukerman, Patinka Copek, Donald Weilerstein, Peter Salaff, Paul Katz, Merry Peckham, Carol Rodland, and Kim Kashkashian.
Jameel is also an accomplished writer. While an undergraduate at Juilliard, he founded Reginald, the underground literary and arts magazine of the Juilliard student community, associated with the Citizen Penguin. His first stage play, “Ransom Place,” premiered at the Onyx Theater Festival of Indianapolis in the fall of 2021. He wrote, directed, and produced the Perlman Music Program’s Family Concert for the Summer Music School of 2022 and 2023.
Other writing engagements included a queer adaptation of Janacek’s “Diary of One Who Disappeared,” in collaboration with opera director Victoria Putterman, which premiered in Valdres, Norway. An avid teacher, Jameel has taught throughout New York City and the Midwest, at the Brooklyn Waldorf School, Bloomindale School of Music, Zeta Schools, Opportunity Music Project, Detroit Youth Volume, and the Heartbeat Music Project on the Navajo Reservation.
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 also founding member of the Renaissance String Quartet. Its debut recital in New York in 2023, 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 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.
