Renaissance String Quartet

Program

Residency Schedule

Friday, June 12
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. — Open Rehearsal · Thorne Center · Free admission 5:30 p.m. — Cocktails · Thorne Center 6:00 p.m. — Concert Reception to follow

Saturday, June 13
“The Morning After” — Brunch & Musical Conversation with the Kovner Fellows A Relaxed Gathering of Music, Ideas & Good Company · Tyte Gallery · Ticketing TBD

About This Program

Tonight’s program is something genuinely rare: a single evening that spans three centuries and three continents of musical culture, performed by some of the most gifted young chamber musicians in the world — two of whom are themselves alumni of the very fellowship that made this concert possible. The program opens with Florence Price — the first African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra — drawing movements from both her First and Second String Quartets. Mozart’s K. 387 and Brahms’ passionate Second Quartet follow, before the evening arrives at its most distinctive offering: cellist and composer Daniel Hass’s own arrangements of Bob Marley songs for string quartet. Bartók’s fierce First Quartet brings the program to an electrifying close. Presented without intermission — from African-American spirituals to Viennese classicism, from Romantic passion to Caribbean soul — united by the Renaissance Quartet’s conviction that the great musical tradition belongs to all of us.

About the Artists

Founded at The Juilliard School and the Perlman Music Program, the Renaissance String Quartet has performed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Princeton University, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Carnegie Hall, and the Marlboro Music Festival. Recipients of a 2024 career grant from Salon de Virtuosi, they have been featured on WQXR.

Randall Goosby, violin
Signed exclusively to Decca Classics at age 24, Randall Goosby is one of today’s most celebrated young violinists. A recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, he was First Prize Winner at the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. The New York Times praised his Carnegie Hall debut for its “masterly level of control” and “exquisite tone.” He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and London Philharmonic, and is himself a proud alumnus of the Kovner Fellowship.

Jeremiah Blacklow, violin
Jeremiah Blacklow debuted in Carnegie’s Weill Hall at the age of eight and has since performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Marlboro Music. He serves as Principal Second Violin of the Glimmerglass Opera Festival.

Jameel Martin, viola
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Jameel Martin is an accomplished violist, writer, poet, and librettist. He has performed as a soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and before audiences in Austria, China, Canada, Germany, Israel, and across the United States.

Daniel Hass, cello
Israeli-Canadian cellist and composer Daniel Hass made his solo debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at age 15. Winner of the Stulberg International String Competition and the Juilliard Cello Concerto Competition, he has been commissioned by the Glenn Gould Foundation. A Kovner Fellow alumnus, Hass composed the Marley Arrangements featured on tonight’s program.

Website: www.renaissancestringquartet.com