Shawn E. Okpebholo wrote Redlin[ing] for Picosa and percussionist Peter Ferry.  The World Premiere was October 2nd, 2024.

The next performance is at EAR TAXI FESTIVAL on October 15th, 2025!

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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 have thoroughly enjoyed 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, Che Buford!

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.

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

 We we were delighted to perform his piece as if it were a scene made up by my mind, that is not mine, but is a made place on February 26th, 2026 at DePaul University.