In collaboration with the Consulate General of Bulgaria, we are delighted to present the exciting Renaissance Quartet, led by 2021 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant Winner Randall Goosby. We hope you will join us for what is sure to be an uplifting and inspiring evening.
The Renaissance Quartet was founded by violinists Randall Goosby and Jeremiah Blacklow, violist Jameel Martin, and cellist Daniel Hass, all graduates of the Juilliard School and the Perlman Music Program. The quartet, based in New York City, came together after over a decade of friendship and collaboration. In line with their desire to create unique concert experiences, and buoyed by violist Jameel Martin’s ability to make friends with anyone and everyone, their first public performance as the Renaissance Quartet took place at the Hungarian Pastry Shop, a beloved and historic café on the Upper West Side. The unique setting hosted an earnest and weighty program of Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet, Brahms’ Quartet in A minor, and Beethoven’s 7-movement behemoth, the quartet Opus 131. While they champion the quartets of Beethoven and Mozart, the quartet feels a responsibility to command a diverse repertoire of classic, underrepresented, and new works so they can contribute to the reclamation, redefinition, and continuation of a musical tradition that belongs to all of us.