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.