Music Uplifts
Music Uplifts
Picosa programs an eclectic body of work that includes a commitment to our community of Chicago-based composers. Through music, narrative, and ongoing conversations, we invite our audiences into shared experiences together with the musicians.
Music Shares
Music Shares
We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion as the honest and transformative path to great art and repertoire. Picosa believes that music’s enduring power is its innate ability to engage all of us — performers, composers, audience — in reflecting and conversing about our experiences, our values, and our aspirations.
Music Equips
Music Equips
Picosa believes in equipping and encouraging the rising generation of musicians through school outreach programs, guest workshops, and its residencies at North Central College and Elmhurst University.
2022 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grantee
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!
Cross Country Chamber Music Consortium Commission Winner
Marco-Adrián Ramos | entre azul y buenas noches
Picosa is thrilled to announce this year’s Cross-Country Chamber Consortium winner, Marco-Adrián Ramos!
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.
Marco-Adrián Ramos has been awarded this season’s Black, Latinx and Indigenous Emerging Composer Commission.
We are delighted to perform his piece entre azul y buenas noches on November 18th, 2024 at DePaul University.
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Professional Photos Credit: Forestt Strong LaFave
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