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Jameel Martin

Writer and violist, Jameel Martin, has performed as a soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Indianapolis, and has performed chamber music for audiences all around the world. 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. He is the founding violist of the Renaissance String Quartet, alongside violinists Randall Goosby and Jeremiah Blacklow, and cellist Daniel Hass.

An avid teacher, Jameel gives private lessons, chamber music coachings, and/or musical theater workshops at various programs throughout the United States: most recently, the Brooklyn Waldorf School, the Heartbeat Music Project, Juilliard Pre-College and Juilliard MAP.

His stage play, “Ransom Place,” premiered at the Onyx Theater Festival, and was published in the inaugural issue of A Common Well Journal. It was then selected for Overtone Industries’ Original Vision development workshop, transforming the play into an opera with long-time collaborator and friend, Daniel Hass. His queer adaptation of Janacek’s song cycle, “The Diary of One Who Disappeared,” premiered in Valdres, Norway, in summer 2023. In January 2024, he co-curated and performed a multi-disciplinary recital program with Randall Goosby, entitled “Intersections: Black Music and Words,” at London’s Southbank Centre, which featured musical performances and readings of his poetry. Forthcoming publications include a series of poems to be published in Archway Editions, Journal this fall/winter.

Jameel is currently pursuing an MFA with a concentration in poetry at Brooklyn College, where he is an adjunct professor of english composition, and co-editor-in-chief/poetry editor of The Brooklyn Review.

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