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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. ⁠ ⁠ Built by Akropolis in 2017, this festival uses new music wind power to bring people together.⁠ ⁠ 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! 👏👏👏⁠ ⁠ ✨Guest Artists✨⁠ 🎺 @krisjohnsonmusic, flugelhorn ⁠ 🎹 @pascalleboeuf, piano⁠ 🥁 christianeuman, drums⁠ 🎵 Shannon Orme, bass clarinet⁠ 🎙️ @marsha_music, poet ⁠ ⁠ ✨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 ⁠ ✨First Concert✨⁠ 📅 July 16 with ProMusica Detroit⁠ Akropolis with Kris Johnson ⁠ 7:30 pm The Players⁠ ⁠ 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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