A maverick of new wind music, Akropolis is committed to showcasing the vast possibilities of the reed quintet through our adventurous repertoire spanning over 400 years of musical history. Having premiered and commissioned over 130 works for the unique combination of oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet, and bassoon, Akropolis is devoted to expanding the existing reed quintet repertoire through the continued germination of new works by emerging and established composers and the creation of imaginative arrangements.
From the dozens of professional reed quintets actively performing around the world, to the hundreds of student ensembles forming at universities around the United States alone, we hope this collection of our ever-growing repertoire continues to help inspire reed quintet growth around the globe. In the collection below, you’ll find works Akropolis has commissioned and arranged, plus works commissioned or arranged by other artists from around the world we consider important contributions to the standard repertoire of the reed quintet.
This list is not a comprehensive list of all reed quintet repertoire in existence, or even all of the repertoire Akropolis has worked to create, so please feel free to contact us at info@akropolisquintet.org with any questions. We would love to help you on your reed quintet journey!
Piece Title | Composer | Arranger | Genre | Akropolis Commission | Sheet Music | Akropolis Video | Akropolis Recording |
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3 Preludes | George Gershwin | Ryan Reynolds | 20th Century | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | ||
A Blank Page | Leonid Kuzmenko | Original Work | ✔ | ||||
A Frayed, Jute Whipping Knot | Joshua Marquez | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
A News Cycle | Matthew Quale | 21st Century | |||||
Air | J.S. Bach | Ryan Reynolds | Baroque | Akropolis Collection | |||
Alchemical Birds | Octavio Vazquez | Original Work | ✔ | bit.ly/3rQL496 | iTunes | ||
An American in Paris | George Gershwin | 20th Century | goo.gl/aGHgtN | YouTube | |||
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba | G.F. Handel | Tim Gocklin | Baroque | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | ||
Augmentation and Drift | Andrija Klaric | Original Work | ✔ | ||||
Autumn in New York | Elliot Bark | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube Video | iTunes | ||
Birdus Petroleum | Babur Tongur | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | |||
Bright Promise from the Fire | Paul Seitz | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | Soundcloud | ||
Candybox | Cheil Meijering | Ryan Reynolds | 20th Century | ||||
Children's Corner | Claude Debussy | Raaf Hekkema | Romantic | goo.gl/aGHgtN | |||
Circusmuziek | Ton ter Doest | Original Work | goo.gl/aGHgtN | YouTube | iTunes | ||
create.process | Mario Godoy | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | ||
Delevarnu | Florie Namir | Original Work | ✔ | iTunes | |||
Elegy | Gregory Wanamaker | 21st Century | ✔ | Link Text | YouTube | iTunes | |
Seed to Snag | Theo Chandler | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube Video | ||
Er Quan Ying Yue | Ah Bing | Oliver Boekhoorn | 20th Century | goo.gl/aGHgtN | |||
Special Ops | Corey Dundee | Original Work | bit.ly/2QhDQaW | ||||
Firing Squad | Niloufar Nourbakhsh | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | ||
Forget | Eli Stein | Original Work | ✔ | ||||
Four Letter Word | Robbie McCarthy | Original Work | YouTube (Akropolis + BodyVox Dance) | iTunes | |||
Fun Fun Fun Fun | Asaf Peres | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | iTunes | |
Gallimaufry | Rob Deemer | Original Work | ✔ | bit.ly/2zzOtk0 | YouTube | iTunes | |
Geryoneïs | Joshua Harris | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | ||
High Speed Reed | Garret Schumann | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | iTunes | ||
Hymns for Private Use | Nico Muhly | Original Work | |||||
Jesus is Coming | Jacob TV | Original Work | YouTube | iTunes | |||
Kinderszenen, Op. 15 | Robert Schumann | Ryan Reynolds | Romantic | Akropolis Collection | |||
Kinds of Light | Michael Gilbertson | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
La Création du Monde | Darius Milaud | Sam Suggs | 20th Century | ||||
La Folia | Antonio Vivaldi | Raaf Hekkema | Baroque | bit.ly/3qQgQSt | |||
La Poule | Jean-Philippe Rameau | Raaf Hekkema | Baroque | goo.gl/aGHgtN | |||
La Rappel des Oiseaux | Jean-Philippe Rameau | Raaf Hekkema | Baroque | goo.gl/aGHgtN | |||
Le Tombeau de Couperin | Maurice Ravel | Raaf Hekkema | Romantic | goo.gl/aGHgtN | |||
Libertango | Astor Piazzolla | Christopher Rueda | 20th Century | bit.ly/2QabSDq | Soundcloud | ||
Look For Me | Nico Muhly | Original Work | bit.ly/2y0NgA2 | ||||
Morse Code | Jason Turbin | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube Video | iTunes | |
Music of Foghorns & Seabirds | Natalie Draper | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | iTunes | |
Nouvelle Suite "La Triomphante" | Jean-Philippe Rameau | Raaf Hekkema | Baroque | goo.gl/aGHgtN | YouTube | ||
Nutcracker Overture | Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Raaf Hekkema | 20th Century | goo.gl/aGHgtN | YouTube | ||
Nuclear Child Games | Babur Tongar | Original Work | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | iTunes | ||
Pinched | Ryan Brown | Original Work | bit.ly/2NL2Bj7 | ||||
Pitchblende | David Heetsersk | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | iTunes | |
Point Blank | Logan Rutledge | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube Video | ||
Polonaise in A major | J.A. Bartoszewski | Original Work | ✔ | ||||
Prelude No. 1 | Garreth Chan | Original Work | ✔ | ||||
Prelude, Fugue, & Riffs | Leonard Bernstein | John Romano | 20th Century | ||||
Quintet for Reeds | Andrew Kohler | Original Work | ✔ | ||||
Reeds | Frederic Rzewski | Original Work | bit.ly/3rSAChv | ||||
Refraction | David Biedenbender | Original Work | ✔ | bit.ly/2Ok5wP3 | YouTube Video | iTunes | |
Rites of the Afterlife | Stacy Garrop | Original Work | ✔ | bit.ly/2NsLbsI | YouTube Video | ||
Romeo & Juliet | Nino Rota | Ryan Reynolds | 20th Century | ||||
Song to the Moon from Rusalka | Antonin Dvorak | Ryan Reynolds | Romantic | Akropolis Collection | |||
Songs of Percival Peacock | Franklin Stover | Original Work | |||||
Sorrow and Celebration for Reed Quintet and Audience | John Steinmetz | Original Work | ✔ | bit.ly/3czGaXD | YouTube Video | iTunes | |
Sound Traveler Angel Sound | Jean-Christophe Rosaz | Original Work | ✔ | ||||
Spiegel im Spiegel | Arvo Part | Ryan Reynolds | 20th Century | ||||
Splinter | Marc Mellits | Original Work | bit.ly/2N6IV44 | YouTube Video | |||
Street Beat | Ezra Donner | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | |||
Surfing Dancing Fleas | Robbie McCarthy | Original Work | |||||
Homage for Paradise Valley | Jeff Scott | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Sprocket (reed quintet + percussion) | Steven Snowden | Original Work | ✔ | bit.ly/3vsvlzp | YouTube Video | ||
CANE (reed quintet + bassoon solo) | Jenni Brandon | Original Work | ✔ | bit.ly/2NsMcB2 | YouTube | ||
Storm Warning (concerto for reed quintet + wind ensemble) | Rochanne Etezady | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube Video | |||
Thaw | Becky Turro | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube Video | ||
The Alcotts | Charles Ives | Ryan Reynolds | 20th Century | ||||
The Electroic House | Brandon Cooney | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
The Neo-Hip-Hot-Cool-Kiddies Community | Duke Ellington | Raaf Hekkema | Original Work | goo.gl/aGHgtN | |||
The Old Rusty Merry-Go-Round | Jason Turbin | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | ||
The Space Between Us | Gregory Wanamaker | Original Work | ✔ | bit.ly/3eKJulE | YouTube | iTunes | |
The Sun Rising | Patrick Holcomb | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | ||
The Woman Who Hatches Eggs | Chiel Meijering | Original Work | bit.ly/2Oq6LfI | iTunes | |||
Threepenny Opera | Kurt Weill | Raaf Hekkema | 20th Century | ||||
Time Lapse | Michael Nyman | Ryan Reynolds | 20th Century | ||||
Variations in the Reeds | John Leszczynski | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Variations on "America" | Charles Ives | Ryan Reynolds | 20th Century | Akropolis Collection | YouTube Video | ||
Variations on Reverse Entropy | Roder Zare | Original Work | ✔ | Akropolis Collection | YouTube | iTunes | |
Variations, Op. 41 | Nikolai Kapustin | Cornelia Sommer | 20th Century | ||||
Medial S | Vladimir Tosic | Original Work | ✔ | ||||
Warp & Weft | Paul Dooley | Original Work | ✔ | bit.ly/2zFYg8k | YouTube | iTunes | |
Whispers in the Dark | Eric Lacy | Original Work | |||||
Wind Skein | Dai Fujikura | Original Work | bit.ly/3qOv9a1 | ||||
Woodburn | Ned McGowan | Original Work | bit.ly/2DIbWUd | ||||
Are We Dreaming The Same Dream (reed quintet + piano + drums) | Pascal Le Boeuf | Original Work | |||||
Three Pieces for Reed Quintet | Maxwell Gong | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Rainfall | Peter Wu | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Breaking News! | Greg Boatman | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Just a Period of Cruise | Michael Sears | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Sunrise Sunset | Aaron Cuklow | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Highs | Aisha Marbury | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Ghostly | Chelsea Flournoy | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Fighting Love | Khyri Flounory | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Sea of Reeds | Max Halperin | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
minims: 1/60th of a fluid drachm | Tyler Hoffman | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
That is My Sin | Kaitlin Freund | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
A Stroke of Midnight | Benjamin Davan | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Sky | Antonio Gentile | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Marsh Creek Lake State Park | Malaika Paralkar | Original Work | ✔ | Youtube | |||
Distanced Thoughts | J.A. Devor | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Misery & Mistakes | Ashley Sled | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Calm Before The Storm | Kailah Arnold | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Soulfunk 313 (concerto for reed quintet + high school band) | Peter Terry | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Why Fest | Benjamin West | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Red Eye | Thomas Palmer | Original Work | ✔ | bit.ly/3vwGGP1 | YouTube | ||
In Contrary Winds | Oswald Huynh | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Perfect Authentic (reed quintet + YAK) | Zac Bru | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
The Forgotten Temple | Kurton Harrison | Original Work | ✔ | Youtube | |||
Fallen | Kurton Harrison | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Emotional Rollercoaster | Kailah Arnold | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Woodwind Trio #1 | Joshua Knox | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
K.Y.D | Anthony Hamilton | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Empathy | Aisha Marbury | Original Work | ✔ | YouTube | |||
Puddle | Katherine Pukinskis | Original Work | ✔ |