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A collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure ~ The Wire

Faultless detail and refreshing artistry
~ I Care If You Listen

Pure gold, shot through with tenderness and grace ~ San Francisco Chronicle

The ensemble has taken the chamber music world by storm ~ Fanfare Magazine

Sounds like few others would dare to attempt ~Take Effect

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ABOUT AKROPOLIS

Celebrating their 13th year making music with a “collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure” (The Wire), Akropolis has “taken the chamber music world by storm” (Fanfare). As the first reed quintet to grace the Billboard Charts (May 2021), the untamed band of 5 reed players and entrepreneurs are united by a shared passion: to make music that sparks joy and wonder.

Winner of 7 national chamber music prizes including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, Akropolis delivers 120 concerts and educational events each year and has premiered over 130 works. They are the first ensemble of their kind to grace the stage on noteworthy series like Oneppo (Yale University), Chamber Music San Antonio, Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.), Summerwinds Münster (Germany), Flagler Museum (Palm Beach), and many more.

Their 22-23 season will include premieres of the music of Augusta Read Thomas and Omar Thomas; imaginative renditions of music by Ravel, Bernstein, Rameau, Shostakovich, and Gershwin; and touring their 4th album, Ghost Light, lauded for its “range, agility, and grace” (The Whole Note). Read More +

UPCOMING EVENTS

May 31
May 31 - June 6

2022 Together We Sound Festival

May 31
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Together We Sound Festival: M.L.K. Jr. Senior High School

May 31
10:15 am - 11:15 am

Together We Sound Festival: Cass Tech High School

May 31
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Together We Sound Festival: Spain Elementary

Jun 1
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Together We Sound Festival: Bates Elementary

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FEATURED VIDEO

Watch Akropolis perform Maurice Ravel’s Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin. They will be touring the full suite during their 22/23 season.

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SEASON UNDERWRITERS

Thank you to our 20/21 Season Underwriters, Karen and Bob Koeppe, for their generous support.

LATEST ALBUM

Listen on Bandcamp, iTunes, & Spotify!

"audibly driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure" ~ The Wire U.K.

"Faultless detail and refreshing artistry. It’s a true joy to sit and listen to these colors and tales that softly haunt you after the last track stops." ~ I Care if You Listen

NEWS

  • Our Mastermind is back! With new guest speaker Rachel Barton Pine April 4, 2022
  • Announcing the Akropolis Chamber Music Institute at Bay View January 29, 2022
  • New Video! Maurice Ravel’s Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin December 20, 2021
  • Ghost Light in the running for Grammy nominations! October 27, 2021
  • Announcing our 21/22 Touring Season! September 23, 2021

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📣 Announcing our 2022 Together We Sound new mus 📣 Announcing our 2022 Together We Sound new music festival! 14 concerts and events this summer in Detroit, MI. ⁠
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Built by Akropolis in 2017, this festival uses new music wind power to bring people together.⁠
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The festival kicks off next week with six K-12 educational concerts, where we'll be premiering 10 new works composed by Detroit Public School @detroitk12 high school students! 👏👏👏⁠
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✨Guest Artists✨⁠
🎺 @krisjohnsonmusic, flugelhorn ⁠
🎹 @pascalleboeuf, piano⁠
🥁 christianeuman, drums⁠
🎵 Shannon Orme, bass clarinet⁠
🎙️ @marsha_music, poet ⁠
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✨World Premieres✨⁠
• "In Excess, Everything Suffers" by Kris Johnson for reed quintet and flugelhorn⁠
• "Limitation & Locomotion" by @jonahcohen.music⁠
• "Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?" by Pascal Le Boeuf, for Akropolis, piano, and drumset ⁠
• 10 new works composed by Cass Technical High School, DSA Detroit School Of Arts High School, Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School students this academic year⁠
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✨First Concert✨⁠
📅 July 16 with ProMusica Detroit⁠
Akropolis with Kris Johnson ⁠
7:30 pm The Players⁠
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Explore the festival & learn more about all this new music at the 🔗 link in our bio 🔗
📣Akropolis Mastermind is teaming up with @fisch 📣Akropolis Mastermind is teaming up with @fischoffchambermusic! 

New this year, the Gold Medalist in the Senior Wind Division will also receive a full scholarship to participate in Akropolis Mastermind, our career development workshop designed to provide the extra-musical skills essential to translating Fischoff success into a lifelong, sustainable chamber music career. 

We made Akropolis Mastermind 3 years ago and have already helped over 80 artists and their ensembles, including several Fishoff alumni and medalists including the 🏆@arunaquartet, @colerequartet, @somaquartet, @aeroquartet 

A BIG thank you to Fischoff for working with us to offer this opportunity to the wind gold medalist this year. We can’t wait to work with the winning group and best of luck to  everyone competing this weekend 👏
🏆🤩A life changing experience we will never f 🏆🤩A life changing experience we will never forget! #throwback to our 2014 Gold Medal winning performance at the @fischoffchambermusic. It’s hard to believe this was EIGHT years ago!!! 

But then again…it totally looks like us 8 years ago 😅😅😅

👏Best of luck to all of the groups competing this weekend! Especially our pals the @somaquartet and fellow reed quinteters @sequoiareeds!!!
⏱It’s the last day to join our Akropolis Maste ⏱It’s the last day to join our Akropolis Mastermind! 

👋Meet Will, violinist 🎻and co-founder of the Montréal based @ensembleurbain, a conductor-less string orchestra specializing in performing works by underrepresented composers. 

Ensemble Urbain attended the 2021 Akropolis Mastermind, and Will talks about how this program helped them develop their organization in a SUSTAINABLE way with all of the member’s individual careers! 👈👈👈

Is this resonating with you and your ensemble!? Then we want to work with you this summer! 

It’s the LAST day to join! Apply by tonight at midnight. 🕰

★ Apply here ★ ⁠⁠
https://akropolisquintet.org/mastermind⠀⁠⁠⁠⁠
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