Violist 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.

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. 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 is scheduled to return in 2023.

Other upcoming writing engagements include a queer adaptation of Janacek’s “Diary of One Who Disappeared,” in collaboration with opera director Victoria Putterman, premiering in Valdres, Norway, in the summer of 2023. An avid teacher, Jameel has taught private and group lessons for various programs throughout New York City and the Midwest. Most recently, he has taught for the Brooklyn Waldorf School, Bloomindale School of Music, Zeta Schools, Opportunity Music Project, and Detroit Youth Volume. In the summer and winter of 2022, he returned to Crown Point, New Mexico, to teach at the Heartbeat Music Project, on the Navajo Reservation.