The San José Chamber Orchestra will give the premiere performance of Professor Pablo Ortiz’s ZOFO Encajonado on May 14, 2023, at 7:00 pm at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Willow Glen, California. ZOFO Encajonado is a concertino in three movements for piano four hands, cajon, and strings. ZOFO is a piano duo comprised of Eva Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi, and they have frequently collaborated with Pablo Ortiz, and have been in residence at UC Davis.

The San José Chamber Orchestra, a professional string-based ensemble of 19 or more players, presents a series of seven to nine programs per season. Many performances feature one or more commissions or world premieres by award-winning composers with critically acclaimed guest artists as featured soloists. San José Chamber Orchestra is the recipient of five ASCAP/League of American Orchestras Adventurous Programming Awards, has produced seven CDs of American music, and commissioned and/or premiered over 170 new works over 26 seasons.