ALUMNI VISITS - FEBRUARY 2023
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FEBRUARY ALUMNI RECITALS
Friday, February 17 | 7:00pm
Harvest House | 3650 17th Street Sarasota, FL 34235
Recital Program:
Mozart String Quartet in D Major, K575
Brahms String Quartet in A minor, Opus 51 No. 2
Daniel Hass ‘Song without Words’
Saturday, February 18 | 1:00-2:00pm
The Oval on The Bay
1055 Blvd of the Arts Sarasota, Florida 34236
FREE outdoor performance.
Guests are advised to bring a lawn chair.
The Perlman Music Program Suncoast will present PMP Alumni string quartet performances of classical chamber music at various locations in February of 2023.
PMP alumni are young, professional musicians who present outreach recitals in community venues, retirement centers, and more throughout Sarasota and Manatee. This program gives our audiences access to world-class musicians and string quartet repertoire, offering a unique opportunity to learn about and interact with the musicians through Q&A sessions or post-concert receptions.
We welcome our first quartet in February of 2023 which includes four extraordinary PMP Alumni: Jeremiah Blacklow, violin; Valerie Kim, violin; Jameel Martin, viola; and Daniel Hass, cello.
Jeremiah Blacklow, violin
Jeremiah Blacklow began studying the violin when he was three. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed at important cultural centers across the globe including Incheon’s Tri-Bowl, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Neue Galerie. He was concertmaster of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra from 2018-20 and concertmaster of The Juilliard Orchestra on multiple occasions in 2021. He is the founding second violinist of the Renaissance String Quartet.
Jeremiah recently graduated from his Masters degree at Juilliard, where he studied with Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho as a recipient of the Fidelity Foundation Scholarship and the Dorothy Starling Scholarship. In 2022, he won Grand Prix at the Marker and Pioneer International Music Competition. He plays an 1856 Giuseppe Rocca violin, formerly used by legendary violinist Maud Powell.
Valerie Kim, violin
Praised for her “comprehensive sense of style and color” (Seen and Heard), Valerie Kim leads a colorful solo and collaborative career. At ten years old, Valerie made her piano concerto debut with the San Diego Symphony and two years later, began her studies as a double major in piano and violin at The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division. The same year, she was also selected to attend the Perlman Music Program (PMP) Summer Music School and has since performed in PMP’s residencies across the U.S. and in Israel.
Valerie has been heard in recitals and masterclasses at the Starling DeLay Symposium, PyeongChang Music Festival and School, NPR’s From the Top, the Verão Clássico Festival and Academy and in 2018, she was invited to Guri Santa Marcelina in São Paulo as a guest teaching artist. She has been featured as a piano and violin concerto soloist with The Little Orchestra Society, New City Sinfonia, and the San Diego Symphony and especially enjoys collaborating with Dominique, her flutist-pianist sister and first ever chamber music partner. The duo, formally known as the Dal Duo has performed together extensively from a young age, including concerts at the La Jolla Music Society and Ventura Music Festival, and in more intimate settings such as library poetry nights, Groupmuses, and retirement communities.
In November 2019, Valerie was invited to the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar in Tianjin and performed at the inaugural Tianjin Chamber Music Festival. In January 2020, her piano trio had the pleasure of performing in a masterclass with Robert Levin and gave the U.S. Premiere of Lee Young-Ja’s Le Pèlerinage de I’ me at the 2020 Focus Festival. Her nurturing PMP upbringing has shaped Valerie into a devoted chamber musician and founding member of the Kila Quartet. Working closely with Roger Tapping at Juilliard and luminaries including Joel Krosnick, Merry Peckham and Donald Weilerstein at the 2018-19 PMP Chamber Music Workshop, the Kila Quartet has been featured in performances and masterclasses at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the 2019 Robert Mann String Quartet Institute, Alice Tully Hall’s Wednesdays At One Series, and WQXR’s Midday Masterpieces. The quartet diligently creates and presents interactive performances for elementary and middle school students, most recently in Long Island, NY and Sarasota, FL.
Based in New York, Valerie is pursuing her Master’s degree at The Juilliard School as a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. She currently studies with Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman and has previously studied with Catherine Cho, Choong-Mo Kang, George Katz, Jeff Thayer, Donald Weilerstein and Rebekah Yoon, among others. Away from the violin, she likes to read, write, bake and bike.
Jameel Martin, viola
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.
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.
Daniel Hass, cello
Israeli-Canadian cellist Daniel Hass is the First Prize winner of the 2016 Stulberg International String Competition, the 2016 winner of the Canada Council for the Arts Michael Measures Prize, the 2019 winner of The Juilliard Cello Concerto Competition, and the 2021 Sylva Gelber Music Foundation award winner.
Daniel made his solo debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at age 15. He has since performed as a soloist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Symphony, and the Juilliard Orchestra, at world-class venues such as Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York, Koerner Hall and Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto, and the Bing Concert Hall in Stanford. He has performed as recitalist and chamber musician in Amsterdam, Lisbon, Tel Aviv, Budapest, Montreal, and across the United States.
A sought after chamber musician in New York City, Daniel frequently performs as a guest artist with the Jupiter Chamber Players, the Omega Ensemble, the Sejong Soloists, and the Andrew Sords Trio, and since 2019 has served as the principal cellist of the Philadelphia-based orchestra Symphony In C. As a member of the avant-garde group Orlando Furioso, lead by Columbia University Scholar Vicente Hansen Atria, Daniel participates in New York City’s time-honored tradition of musical innovation.
Daniel has been featured several times on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation national radio, and on the American radio show ‘From the Top,’ performing alongside renowned musicians such as Grammy-winning composer Danny Elfman.
In addition to his love for performing, Daniel is also a prolific composer and songwriter. His ballet piece Runner’s High for drums, cello, violin, and dance ensemble was premiered by the Revolve Dance Project in July of 2021, and his first piano quartet, written for his colleagues violinist Randall Goosby, violist Jameel Martin, and pianist Derek Wang, will be performed and recorded this coming fall.
As a recording artist, Daniel frequently works as a session musician at Brooklyn’s Bunker Studios and Manhattan’s Atlantic Records, arranging, producing and recording music for artists such as award winning actress and singer Maya Thurman-Hawke, actor Steven M. Robertson, opera singer Tyler Stahl, and New York City Ballet dancer and singer Clara Miller.
Since 2017, Daniel has taught a growing number of private students, and has also taught at public schools as a member of Harmony Program, a music education non-profit organization in New York. He is a mentor of the Las Vegas Young Artists Orchestra since, a tuition-free music program in the State of Nevada, performing and giving masterclasses with the youth orchestra since 2018. In the realm of community outreach, Mr. Hass is a weekly performer for Concerts in Motion, a non-profit organization, bringing live house concerts to elderly and socially isolated individuals throughout New York City.
Daniel graduated from Juilliard in 2017 as a recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, and in 2021 with a Master’s Degree. There he studied with cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, and violinists Areta Zhulla and Itzhak Perlman.
