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Prism Percussion explores the expressive colors of percussive sounds utilizing non-standard instruments and seeks to champion works by Black, Indigenious, People of Color, Women, and Queer composers. The San Francisco based percussion duo was founded in 2018 by Divesh Karamchandani and Elizabeth Hall. Their presence on stage is "both musically and visually stunning" affirms Jessica Balik of San Francisco Classical Voice. Karamchandani and Hall's mutual passion for percussion chamber music and collaborating with composers and other musicians led them to create this duo. They enjoy fostering the creation of new works and have commissioned several pieces for the duo as well as having collaborated on many commission consortiums. 

Karamchandani and Hall met at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival in 2011 and bonded over their love of the marimba. Their friendship grew and their paths crossed again when they both moved to San Francisco to attend the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for their masters degrees. They performed together professionally with diverse groups and concerts including Mercury Soul, One Found Sound, The Hot Air Music Festival, Post:Ballet, Calvary Choir, Golden Gate Symphony, and Cantare Con Vivo and are looking forward to continuing their creative collaboration with other artists. 

Since their inaugural performance in 2018, Prism Percussion has performed programs showcasing new works for percussion by underrepresented composers and appeared as guest artists on several other organizations’ recitals. Prism Percussion self-produced a number of recitals at McRoskey Mattress Company in August 2018 and November 2019. The other full-length recitals were part of SF-based concert series 7th Ave Performances (November 2018 and March 2020) and 405 Shrader (April 2019). Prism Percussion was also featured as guest artists on the Elevate Ensemble concert “Low Hanging Fruit” in February 2019, the One Found Sound chamber concert in March 2019, and on pianist Adam Tendler’s recital in June 2019 which was a part of Grace Cathedral’s “Unearthed” series focusing on music that echoed themes of Jim Hodges statue, Unearthed, an up-rooted tree stump covered in bronze. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Prism Percussion has made the shift to virtual performances in an effort to continue sharing new repertoire for percussion duo.