Akropolis Reed Quintet Announces 2024/2025 Season Highlights

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Akropolis Reed Quintet Announces 2024/2025 Season Highlights

Five-Day Residency at Bravo! Vail in Summer 2024

Appearances at ORCMA Chamber Music Series, Calgary Pro Musica, 

Shenandoah New Music, Performance Series at the Williams Center for the Arts,
Chamber Music in Yellow Springs,

 “Together We Sound” Festival, Los Alamos Concert Association (LACA)
and RED NOTE New Music Festival 

Pascal LeBoeuf’s Are We Dreaming the Same Dream Co-Presented by 

Chamber Music Corvallis and Patricia Valian Reser Center

Residency Program for Universities Across North America and High Schools in Detroit

Akropolis Chamber Music Institute at Bay View

Workshops at University of Calgary, Shenandoah University, University of Michigan, 

Lafayette College, the Colburn School, Carnegie Mellon University, 

University of Tennessee Knoxville and University of Oregon

Matching Grant of $75,000 from Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

“a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works
with charisma and integrity” – BBC Music Magazine

“[Akropolis] has taken the chamber music world by storm” – Fanfare Magazine

akropolisquintet.org
 

New York, NY (August 22, 2024) – Acclaimed for their "collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure" (The Wire), Akropolis Reed Quintet continues to share their signature warmth with audiences during the 2024-2025 season with a full schedule of concert performances, residency programs and workshops.

Highlights of Akropolis's 2024/2025 season include performances presented by ORCMA Chamber Series, Dayton ArtsLIVE, Calgary Pro Musica, Shenandoah New Music, Performance Series at the Williams Center for the Arts, Chamber Music in Yellow Springs, Los Alamos Concert Association, and RED NOTE New Music Festival. Chamber Music Corvallis and Patricia Valian Reser Center will co-present the new work Are We Dreaming the Same Dream with drummer Christian Euman and pianist Pascal Le Boeuf, who also composed the work. In addition to residencies at universities across North America, they continue to present the Detroit-based Together We Sound Festival, where they will feature Harriet Steinke’s work Mass, an Akropolis commission celebrating Detroit's sacred gathering spaces, and will carry on residencies at MLK High School, Detroit School of Arts and Cass Tech High School. Akropolis will also hold readings and workshops at the University of Calgary, Shenandoah University, University of Michigan, Lafayette College, the Colburn School, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Tennessee Knoxville and University of Oregon. The quintet continues its Akropolis Chamber Music Institute Summer Festival at Bay View, with additional world premieres by Ryan Lindviet and Jonathan Newman, plus performances of recent commissions by Augusta Read Thomas, Derrick Skye, Stephanie Ann Boyd, Omar Thomas and Oswald Hu?nh.

Akropolis has received a $75,000 matching challenge grant from the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation for significant organizational growth. Certified as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Akropolis must amass $75,000 in new giving by March 1, 2025 to meet the conditions of the matching challenge grant, which will benefit the permanent growth and sustainability of the quintet. Akropolis also recently hired its first non-quintet staff member, Operations and Development Manager Deanna Sirkot, marking another milestone in the group’s 16th season.

As the 2024/2025 gets underway, Akropolis brings programs to the First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge (Tennessee) as part of the ORCMA Chamber Music Series on Saturday, September 21, 2024, and to the Roger Glass Center for the Arts (Dayton, OH), presented by Dayton ArtsLIVE on Sunday, September 22, 2024. A workshop in the Music Department at the University of Dayton will follow. They appear at North Carolina’s Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities on Friday, October 4, 2024.

The American Music Festival presents Akropolis in a concert on Saturday, October 5, 2024 at the First Presbyterian Church in Morehead City, NC. The program includes Marc Mellits’s Splinter, Derrick Skye’s A Soulful Nexus, Nina Simone’s For All We Know and Jeff Scott’s Homage to Paradise Valley. The quintet brings the same program to North Carolina’s Beckwith Recital Hall for a concert presented by Chamber Music Wilmington on Sunday, October 6, 2024, before returning to Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor, MI for a concert of new commissions as a part of their 2024 Together We Sound Festival on Saturday, October 12, 2024. The program features Stephanie Ann Boyd's new reed quintet, Lake of Muses, about the history and future of the Great Lakes.

On Friday, November 1, 2024 and Saturday, November 2, 2024, Akropolis appears at the Colburn School for a two-day residency featuring a variety of performances and events for Colburn students, including career development workshops and instruction for wind ensemble students. They head to Ridgecrest United Methodist Church on Sunday, November 3, 2024 for a Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society Concert, performing a program that includes Jeff Scott’s Homage to Paradise Valley, Felix Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Oswald Huynh’s These few specks of time and Ravel’s Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin. They go on to conduct two educational events with music students in Ridgecrest Public Schools on Monday, November 4, 2024.

Akropolis returns to the University of Oregon for a residency on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, where they will work with woodwind students and perform a guest artist series concert at Beall Concert Hall. On Friday, November 8, 2024, they perform Are We Dreaming The Same Dream? at the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts in Corvallis, OR. The program, co-presented by Chamber Music Corvallis and the Patricia Valian Reser Center, represents a collaboration with GRAMMY®-nominated pianist/composer Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Marcus Finnie for a performance that draws together classical and jazz idioms to reflect on American identity. Akropolis released a recording of the work on Bright Shiny Things on April 26, 2024.

Calgary Pro Musica presents Akropolis in a new program, Masterworks, on Friday, February 7, 2025 at the Rozsa Centre at the University of Calgary – following an entrepreneurship workshop hosted by the quintet at noon on the same day. The concert program features works by Ravel, Omar Thomas, Derrick Skye and Gershwin, showcasing a blend of classical tradition with contemporary influences. On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, Akropolis appears at Shenandoah University to lead composer readings as a guest artist ensemble. They hold a performance at 8:00pm on the same day at the Bright Box Theater as part of the Shenandoah New Music series. Other workshops include a return to the University of Michigan School of Music's EXCEL program on Saturday, January 25, 2025 and an appearance at Lafayette College to lead workshops and discussions on entrepreneurship and music on Friday, March 7, 2025.

From Wednesday, February 12 to Friday, February 14, 2025, Akropolis appears at Carnegie Mellon University’s Kresge Recital Hall for a residency program featuring composer readings, chamber music coaching and class visits, before concluding with a Carnegie Mellon Chamber Series concert on Thursday, February 13, 2025.

On Monday, February 17, 2025, the University of Tennessee Knoxville will present Akropolis in the world premiere of a new work by Ryan Lindviet’s at the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center, followed by residency activities including composer readings and winds classes on Tuesday, February 18, 2025.

Akropolis will head to the University of Oklahoma for their next residency on Tuesday, March 4, 2024, holding a Q&A session with School of Music students and presenting master classes before performing at the Sharp Concert Hall in the evening.

Akropolis will appear for an evening performance of Are We Dreaming The Same Dream? at the Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College on Saturday, March 8, 2025, preceded by a pre-concert discussion in the afternoon. On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at First Presbyterian Church in Yellow Springs, OH, Akropolis performs in a concert presented by Chamber Music in Yellow Springs, featuring commissions by Derrick Skye and Stephanie Ann Boyd. The quintet goes on to appear at Illinois State University’s RED NOTE New Music Festival from Tuesday, March 25, 2025 to Thursday March 27, 2025. They will also appear at the Scheide Music Center in Wooster, OH on Sunday, April 6, 2025 for a performance presented by the Wooster Chamber Music Series.

During the summer of 2025, Akropolis returns to its home base of Detroit to run the Together We Sound Festival New Music Festival. From Monday, May 12 to Wednesday, May 14, 2025, they will collaborate with local and national artists as well as Detroit youth, featuring concerts by the Detroit High School Composers as part of Akropolis’s school year-length residency at MLK High School, Detroit School of Arts and Cass Tech High School. Since 2017, Akropolis has helped over 50 Detroit high school students to compose music, resulting in more than 10 new commissions this academic year. From Tuesday, May 27, 2025 to Sunday, June 1, 2025, Akropolis will appear in numerous community performances as part of the DPS Elementary Residency, featuring 14 concerts and events specially produced by the quintet. Akropolis ends the season with an engagement at the Duane W. Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, June 7, 2025, presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association.

Akropolis Reed Quintet 2024-2025 Season Calendar

Saturday, August 3 – Sunday, August 11, 2024
Akropolis Chamber Music Institute at Bay View
Bay View Music Festival | Petoskey, MI
Link: www.akropolisquintet.org/acmi/

Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 3:00pm
ORCMA Chamber Series Concert
First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge | Oak Ridge, TN
Link: www.orcma.org/concerts-and-events/akropolis-reed-quintet

Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 3:00pm
Monday, September 23, 2024 at 1:25pm
Dayton ArtsLIVE
Roger Glass Center for the Arts | Dayton, OH
Link: go.udayton.edu/glasscenter

Friday, October 4, 2024 at 4:00pm
Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities
Boyd House | Southern Pines, NC
Link: weymouthcenter.org/event-calendar/

Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 7:30pm
American Music Festival
First Presbyterian Church | Morehead City, NC
Link: www.americanmusicfestival.org/

Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 4:00pm
Chamber Music Wilmington
Beckwith Recital Hall | Wilmington, NC
Link: www.chambermusicwilmington.org/

Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 7:30pm
Together We Sound Festival
Kerrytown Concert House | Ann Arbor, MI
Link: www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com/events/list/

Friday, November 1, 2024
Saturday, November 2, 2024
The Colburn School Residency
The Colburn School | Los Angeles, CA
Link: www.akropolisquintet.org/event/the-colburn-school-residency/

Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 4:00pm
Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society
Ridgecrest United Methodist Church | Ridgecrest, CA
Link: www.rcchambermusic.org/2024-25/Akropolis.html

Monday, November 4, 2024
Ridgecrest Public Schools Educational Concerts
Ridgecrest Public Schools | Ridgecrest, CA
Link: www.rcchambermusic.org/2024-25/Akropolis.html

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 12:00pm
Woodwind Studio Class
University of Oregon School of Music and Dance
Beall Concert Hall | Eugene, OR
Link: www.musicanddance.uoregon.edu/

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 7:30pm
University of Oregon Guest Artist Series
Beall Concert Hall | Eugene, OR
Link: www.musicanddance.uoregon.edu/

Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 12:00pm
Oregon State University Wind Ensemble Workshop
Oregon State University School of Music
Link: www.akropolisquintet.org/events

Friday, November 8, 2024 at 7:00pm
PRAx and Chamber Music Corvallis Presents:
Are We Dreaming The Same Dream? with Pascal Le Boeuf
Detrick Hall, Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts | Corvallis, OR
Link: www.chambermusiccorvallis.org/

Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:00am
School of Music EXCEL Program Intensive
University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
Link: www.akropolisquintet.org/events

Friday, February 7, 2025 at 1:00pm
Entrepreneurship Workshop
University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada
Link: www.calgarypromusica.ca/

Friday, February 7, 2025 at 8:00pm
Calgary Pro Musica
Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary | Calgary, AB, Canada
Link: www.calgarypromusica.ca/

Wednesday, February 12 – Friday, February 14, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University Residency
Composer Reading: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 for 6 hours
Convocation: Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 2:00pm
CMU Chamber Series Concert: Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 7:30pm
Chamber Music coaching and class visits: Friday, February 14, 2025
Kresge Recital Hall, Pittsburgh, PA
Link: www.akropolisquintet.org/events

Monday, February 17, 2025 – Tuesday, February 18, 2025
University of Tennessee Knoxville (Ryan Lindveit world premiere)
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center, Knoxville, TN
Link: www.music.utk.edu/events/

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 12:00pm
Shenandoah New Music Composer Reading
Shenandoah University | Winchester, Virginia
Link: www.conservatoryperforms.org

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 8:00pm
Shenandoah New Music (Jonathan Newman World Premiere)
Bright Box Theater | Winchester, Virginia
Link: www.su.edu/performs/event/25-02-akropolis-reed-quintet/

Tuesday, March 4, 2024 (morning/afternoon)
University of Oklahoma
Q&A with School of Music students and individual master classes
OU School of Music | Norman, OK
Link: www.ou.edu/finearts/music/

Tuesday, March 4, 2024 at 7:30pm
University of Oklahoma
Sharp Concert Hall | Norman, OK
Link: www.ou.edu/finearts/music/

Friday, March 7, 2025
Entrepreneurship Workshop
Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College | Easton, Pennsylvania
Link: williamscenter.lafayette.edu/event/akropolis-reed-quintet/

Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 8:00pm
Are We Dreaming The Same Dream? with Pascal Le Boeuf and Christian Euman
Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College | Easton, PA
Link: www.williamscenter.lafayette.edu/

Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 4:00pm
Chamber Music in Yellow Springs
First Presbyterian Church | Yellow Springs, Ohio
Link: www.cmys.org/

Tuesday, March 25 – Thursday March 27, 2025
RED NOTE New Music Festival
Illinois State University | Normal, IL
Link: www.finearts.illinoisstate.edu/events-activities/red-note/

Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 4:00pm
Wooster Chamber Music Series
Gault Recital Hall in Scheide Music Center | Wooster, OH
Link: www.woosterchambermusic.com/

Monday, May 12, 2025 – Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Together We Sound Festival: Detroit High School Composers Concerts
MLK High School, Detroit School of Arts, Cass Tech High School | Detroit, Michigan
Link: www.akropolisquintet.org/detroit-hs-residency/

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 – Sunday, June 1, 2025
Together We Sound Festival: Community Concerts and DPS Elementary Residency 
Link: www.akropolisquintet.org/together-we-sound/

Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 3:00pm
Los Alamos Concert Association (LACA)
Duane W. Smith Auditorium | Los Alamos, New Mexico
Link: www.losalamosconcert.org/season-schedule/

About Akropolis Quintet
Celebrating its 15th year as “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine), the Akropolis Reed Quintet comprises five reed players and entrepreneurs unbounded by limits or categorization.

Described by The Wire as a “collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure,” Akropolis is the first reed quintet to twice grace the Billboard Charts (2021 and 2022). Winner of seven national chamber music prizes including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, Akropolis is known for performing “works that brilliantly exploit their unique instrumentation” (Gramophone). Composed of the same five members that brought about its founding in 2009, Akropolis delivers 120 concerts and educational events worldwide each year and has premiered and commissioned more than 130 works by living artists and composers. Ever since “[taking] the chamber world by storm” (Fanfare), the five Akropolis artists have remained united by a shared passion to make music that sparks joy and wonder.

Akropolis’ 15th anniversary season in 2023-2024 included their UMS debut; premieres of the music of Derrick Skye and Stephanie Ann Boyd; imaginative renditions of music by Ravel and Stravinsky; and touring their sixth album, Are We Dreaming The Same Dream? with GRAMMY®-nominated pianist and composer Pascal Le Beouf.
The quintet is also known for powerful collaborations with youth and others within its Detroit community. Certified as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Akropolis is the recipient of the 2015 Fischoff Educator Award, as well as seven consecutive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at https://akropolisquintet.org/.

*Photo Credit: Jason Walker

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