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"Pure Gold" - San Francisco Chronicle

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ABOUT AKROPOLIS

Celebrating over a decade of music making, the Akropolis Reed Quintet, with their “infallible musicality and huge vitality” (Fanfare), has sparked a revolution in wind chamber music. An untamed band of 5 reed players and entrepreneurs, the members of Akropolis are united by a shared passion: to make new music that connects and reflects real people.

Akropolis delivers an average of 120 concerts and educational events nationwide each year; has premiered more than 130 works; runs an annual new music festival in Detroit called “Together We Sound”; is in residence at 3 Detroit high schools; their third album, The Space Between Us, was dubbed “pure gold” (San Francisco Chronicle), and Akropolis’ 4th album, Ghost Light, will be released on April 9, 2021 on New Focus Recordings. Generously supported by 200+ donors and foundations nationwide, Akropolis is a 7-time winner of America’s foremost chamber music prizes including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, and was founded at the University of Michigan in 2009. Read More +

UPCOMING EVENTS

Blue Hill Concert Association - Virtual Educational Outreach
Virtual Event
March 4, 2021
Virtual Event
National Association for Music Education Student Composition Winners Concert
Virtual Event
March 29, 2021
Virtual Event
Free Zoom Concert! Registration Required via the Event Ticket Link
Akropolis Reed Quintet with BodyVox Dance: NINETEEN•TWENTY
Portland
November 19, 2021
BodyVox Dance Center
Chamber Music Northwest
Akropolis Reed Quintet with BodyVox Dance: NINETEEN•TWENTY
Portland
December 9, 2021
BodyVox Dance Center
Chamber Music Northwest

FEATURED VIDEO

Watch the trailer for Akropolis' 4th album Ghost Light, coming out 4.9.21 on New Focus Recordings

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SEASON UNDERWRITERS

Thank you to our 19/20 Season Underwriters, Karen and Bob Koeppe, for their generous support.

LATEST ALBUM

Listen on Bandcamp, iTunes, & Spotify

Two works which paint vivid portraits of birds by composers Natalie Draper and Octavio Vazquez

NEWS

  • 3 New Videos From Our Fall Residency With Swarthmore College! February 22, 2021
  • 📣 Announcing our 4th album, Ghost Light, out April 9, 2021 on New Focus Recordings February 14, 2021
  • Out today! 🐦 BIRDS EP on Bandcamp, Spotify, & iTunes January 7, 2021
  • 6 new videos! New student compositions from our West Chester University residency January 1, 2021
  • 🙏With gratitude on #GivingTuesday December 2, 2020

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Absolutely unreal! If you had told us 10 years ago Absolutely unreal! If you had told us 10 years ago when we were sitting in this very Symphony Band that Akropolis would be where we are today, we wouldn't have believe it. What a privilege to come out of this program and now be invited back to celebrate the #reedquintet and our 10 years of music making together. ⁠⠀
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Roshanne Etezady, thank you for writing an absolutely killer concerto and thank you to Professor Michael Haithcock for your enormous support and for making this collaboration and world premiere possible. ⁠⠀
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And finally, thank you to so many of our friends, family, teachers, and fans for coming out to hear us on Friday night. Always and forever #goblue!⁠⠀
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@umichsmtd @umicharts @uofmichigan @michiganalumni⁠⠀
⚡There's a storm coming! If you're in Ann Arbor, ⚡There's a storm coming! If you're in Ann Arbor, come join us TONIGHT for the world premiere of our concerto Storm Warning by Roshanne Etezady with the @umichsmtd Symphony Band! Here's just a taste of what's brewing...⁠⠀
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📅Concert ~ 8 pm at Hill Auditorium⁠⠀
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📅Pre-Concert Conversation ~ 7:15 pm in the Lower Lobby with Roshanne Etezady, Akropolis, and director Michael Haithcock⁠⠀
We’re back at @umichsmtd! So far our week is off We’re back at @umichsmtd! So far our week is off to an awesome start rehearsing ⚡️Storm Warning with the Symphony Band and @ryanreynoldsbassoon giving a bassoon master class for the students of his former teacher @bsnlyman. All the students are sounding fantastic and we’re so pumped to be back working with all of these awesome musicians!
10 years later and we're heading back to Hill Audi 10 years later and we're heading back to Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor to perform a concerto with the very band we all met in 🥰🤩#allthefeels #flashbackfriday⁠⠀
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1 WEEK FROM TODAY, we'll be premiering Roshanne Etezady's concerto for reed quintet and wind band, ⚡Storm Warning⚡, with the University of Michigan Symphony Band—the ensemble in which the five of us met ten years ago—under the direction of our long-time mentor and teacher, Professor Michael Haithcock.⁠⠀
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📅 Friday, February 7 at 8 pm ⁠⠀
Hill Auditorium In Ann Arbor, MI ⁠⠀
FREE admission ⁠⠀
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More info at the link 🔗 in our bio⁠
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10 Years and 40,000 Students Later...Support Akropolis' 10 Year Educational Impact with a Tax Deductible Donation Today!

Over the past 10 years, we’ve conducted 412 educational events for 41,560 students around the world. That’s right! Over 40,000 students have worked with Akropolis over the last decade!

We couldn’t be prouder of the educational legacy you’ve helped us build as we enter into our second decade of award-winning music and community engagement. Please consider supporting our work with a tax-deductible donation to support Akropolis’ educational programming before 2019 ends. Thank you for your support!

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