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

We had the privilege to record Redlin[ing] in October 2025 for Shawn’s upcoming album on Cedille!

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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, Rolando Gomez!

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.

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

The current ensembles of the consortium will perform The Two Clocks all over the country this season.  Atlanta Chamber Players (Atlanta), Ensemble New SRQ (New York), Picosa (Chicago), Musiqa (Houston) and SOLI Chamber Ensemble (San Antonio).

 We are delighted to perform his piece The Two Clocks on April 20th, 2027 at DePaul University.