Akropolis Reed Quintet

Akropolis Reed Quintet

February 6, 2027 Bankhead Theater Livermore 2:00 p.m.

GRAMMY® award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet has graced the Classical Billboard Charts with each of their last three albums.  Founded at the University of Michigan, the imaginative group of five woodwind players has won seven national chamber music competitions.  Akropolis has premiered over 200 new works, performing programs with a definition-defying mix of genres.

“Pure gold, shot through with tenderness and grace.” - Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle

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

Founded in 2009, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet is “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine). Comprising five reed players and entrepreneurs unbounded by limits or categorization, they have premiered and commissioned more than 200 works by living artists and composers and are pioneers and champions of a new genre of classical music—the reed quintet.

Composed of the same five members that brought about its founding at the University of Michigan, they are the first ensemble to receive the University's Paul M. Boylan Alumni Award. Akropolis delivers 120 concerts and educational events worldwide each year at luminary series including Tanglewood, Bravo! Vail, University Musical Society, Chamber Music Northwest, and more.