Akropolis Reed Quintet Perform In Los Alamos June 7

Submitted by Carol A. Clark
on May 7, 2025
- 8:00 am

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LACA News:

The GRAMMY® Award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet, celebrating their 16th season as “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine), will perform a dynamic program presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association in Los Alamos at 3 p.m., Saturday, June 7, in the Duane Smith Auditorium.

As a special bonus, composer Oswald Huynh will introduce his piece These few specs of time. After the concert enjoy Dinner with the Artists. Members of the Akropolis Quintet will be seated at tables in Beef and Leaf Restaurant in Los Alamos among dinner attendees. Tickets are $70 per person exclusive of alcoholic drinks, and are purchasable before, at intermission, and after the concert as supplies last. Seating limited to 60.

Composed of five reed players and entrepreneurs unbounded by limits or categorization and described by The Wire as a “collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure,” Akropolis has graced the Classical Billboard Charts with each of their last three albums, including #2 in April 2024.

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). Experimenters and creators at their core, the five artists of Akropolis are routinely lauded for their boldness and innovative spirit. As The Wire commented: “There’s nothing tentative in their approach, and that extends to their programming of multifariously challenging and imaginative new works.”

Akropolis has collaborated with poets, a metal fabricator, dancers, small business owners, string quartets, pop vocalists, and others from all walks of life. The ensemble’s sixth album, Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?, with three-time GRAMMY®-nominated composer/pianist Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman, was released in April 2024 on Bright Shiny Things and their single from the album, Strands, won the 2025 GRAMMY® for Best Instrumental Composition. The quintet is also known for powerful collaborations with youth and others within its Detroit community.

Certified as a 510(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.

Tickets ($40 plus $3 online service fee) are available in advance at www.losalamosconcert.org via Tix or before the concert at the Box Office ($40). Tickets for youth ages 6-18 are free. Music educators in Northern New Mexico may also register for free tickets at https://losalamosconcert.org/tickets/ .