Celebrating its 10th anniversary this season, the artist-led collective Decoda seeks to create a more compassionate and connected world through music—thoughtfully curating outstanding performances of live chamber music, facilitating creative community projects, and inspiring the next generation of musical artists to rethink and reimagine their role in society.
In the 2022–2023 season, Decoda returns to Weill Recital Hall, records its debut album at Tippet Rise Art Center, returns to Lee Correctional Institution, and premieres 10 new works by the composers of ICEBERG New Music in collaboration with improv artists Louis Kornfeld and Rick Andrews. The ensemble will also be in residence at Montclair State University as part of the Cali Residency Series.
Decoda’s collaborations this season include creative community partnerships with Musical Masterworks (Old Lyme, Connecticut), the Tianjin Juilliard School, UCLA, and New York Youth Symphony. Through a Cultural Development Fund grant, Decoda presents a semi-staged performance of the opera 9131 by Joseph Wilson, a resident of Sing Sing Correctional Facility. The Decoda Chamber Music Festival, an immersive, two-week summer festival, continues at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Decoda continues to deepen its commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in the performing arts. The ensemble is a proud founding member of the Cross-Country Chamber Consortium, which aims to increase diversity in modern chamber music. Music for Transformation, a collaboration with incarcerated musicians at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina, has been recognized by the White House, CNN, The Washington Post, and Huffington Post.
Decoda’s past engagements include performances at the Barbican Centre and Southbank Centre, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore, WQXR, Mainly Mozart Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Caramoor Music Festival, Carnegie Kids at Suntory Hall, Programa de Educación Musical Fomento Cultural Banamex and Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Curtis Institute of Music, Yale School of Music, Chelsea Music Festival, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Sawdust, and more.
Decoda was founded in 2012 by musicians who first collaborated as members of Ensemble Connect. Its work as an ensemble has grown out of this collective training, which focused on developing skills as exemplary performers, dedicated teachers, and passionate advocates for music in communities around the world. As alums of Ensemble Connect and in recognition of its members’ ongoing success as artists, educators, and advocates for music, Decoda is the only independent ensemble to be recognized as an affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall.
