Renaissance Quartet with Randall Goosby

Countdown to 100: Five…

In 2029-30, Chamber Music Cincinnati will celebrate its 100th Anniversary. Only four other U.S presenters will have reached that milestone. (Kudos to St. Paul’s Schubert Club, the first to do so, in 1983!)

The six 2025-26 concerts comprise the first of five celebratory seasons that will culminate in a landmark.

Chamber Music Cincinnati and Memorial Hall welcome you to them all!

“Make no mistake, Goosby is a virtuoso.” – Gramophone

“With his secure technique, natural phrasing, gorgeous tone…Randall Goosby has everything…” —NPR

2024 Salon de Virtuosi grant awardee quartet.

Reimagining the role and capacity of the string quartet as a vehicle for change.

Randall Goosby and Jeremiah Blacklow, violins

Jameel Martin, viola

Daniel Hass, cello

The aging violinist Randall Goosby (he turns 29 on July 6) is at this point known to nearly all Americans who love classical music and to legions beyond our borders. He received degrees from Juilliard in 2020 and 2022 under Itzakh Perlman and Catherine Cho, the former in the year that he was signed by Decca Records. Since then, he has performed with major orchestras the world over, including the Cincinnati Symphony, and similarly played chamber concerts with his duo partner, pianist Zhu Wang. He has been acclaimed by no less than Gramophone, the world’s leading classical music publication as “looking back to a golden age of violin greats,” while at the same time being “a forward-looking ambassador for the future.”

What many people don’t know, and Cincinnatians are about to experience, is that the multi-dimensional Goosby has an exceptionally fine string quartet comprised of Juilliard classmates, collectively mentored by Perlman.

· Jeremiah Blacklow began studying the violin when at three. As soloist and chamber musician, he has performed at cultural centers across the globe, including Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Neue Galerie.

· Violist Jameel Martin has performed as a soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and for audiences in Austria, China, Canada, Germany, Israel, and across the United States.

· Daniel Haas, an Israeli-Canadian cellist made his solo debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at 15. He has appeared soloist with orchestras across North America including at Carnegie Hall. As recitalist and chamber musician, Haas has performed in Amsterdam, Lisbon, Tel Aviv, Budapest, Montreal, and in the U.S. and Canada. A composer, his String Quartet No. 1 had its world premiere in February 2023.