Rhea Pickios

Rhea Pickios, born in Cologne, studied bassoon (solo performance and chamber music) at the University of Music and Dance Cologne (HFMT Köln) with Georg Klütsch, Bram van Sambeek, and Veiko Bräme, as well as at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon (CNSMD Lyon)with Carlo Colombo.
She has performed in several German orchestras, including Ensemble Reflektor, the WDR Radio Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BR), the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Staatstheater Mainz, and the Krefeld–Mönchengladbach Symphony Orchestra.From 2017 to 2021, she was a member of the Athens State Orchestra, after which she joined the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra.
Alongside her work as an orchestral musician, she regularly performs in Greece with the contemporary music ensemble Tetttix (with three "t"s) and in a wide variety of chamber music formations.

(Foto by Heide Benser)