Shawn E. Okpebholo will compose a chamber work for Picosa and percussionist Peter Ferry to be premiered next season!

We are over-the-moon excited!!

The musicians of Picosa are so grateful to Chamber Music America for being chosen as one of the 2022 grantees of the Classical Commissioning Grant together with acclaimed composer Shawn E. Okpebholo and guest artist Peter Ferry, percussion. To be able to premiere a newly commissioned work by Shawn is an incredible joy and privilege for the ensemble. With a longstanding friendship together that began with the ensemble’s performances of CryptOlogiE in 2015, we look forward to embarking on this wonderful creative process together and bringing this new premiere to life!

Picosa is thrilled to announce this year’s Cross-Country Chamber Consortium winner, Kyle Rivera!

In 2021, Atlanta Chamber Players (Atlanta), Decoda (New York), Fifth House Ensemble (Chicago), Musiqa (Houston) and SOLI Chamber Ensemble (San Antonio) announced the creation of a new consortium aimed at increasing diversity in modern chamber music repertoire.

Kyle Rivera has been awarded this season’s Black, Latinx and Indigenous Emerging Composer Commission.

 We are delighted to perform his piece Anaglyph: A Repository of Imaginary Languages on May 8th, 2024 at DePaul University.