Akropolis Reed Quintet Chamber Music Concert

Overview

Akropolis Reed Quintet

Grammy and Fischoff Chamber Music medal winner

Performance February 7, 2027

Faye Spanos Concert Hall, Stockton, CA

Founded in 2009, the Billboard-charting, 7-time national prize-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet is “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine). In 2025, the ensemble made history as the lead ensemble on the GRAMMY® Award-winning recording of Strands by Pascal Le Boeuf, which won Best Instrumental Composition at the 67th Annual GRAMMY® Awards.

The Akropolis Reed Quintet comprises five reed players, the same members that brought about its founding over 15 years ago at the University of Michigan: Tim Gocklin (oboe), Kari Dion (clarinet), Matt Landry (saxophone), Andrew Koeppe (bass clarinet), and Ryan Reynolds (bassoon). They are the first ensemble to receive the University's Paul M. Boylan Alumni Award and has won seven national chamber music prizes including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal. Having premiered and commissioned more than 200 works by living artists and composers, they are pioneers and champions of a new genre of classical music—the reed.

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.

Utilizing their “sheer musical imagination” (Gramophone), the quintet is also known for powerful collaborations with youth and others within its Southeast Michigan community. Certified as a 510(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Akropolis runs a Detroit-based summer festival called Together We Sound, holds an annual, school year-long music composition residencies at Cass Tech, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Detroit School of Arts high schools, and produces a 10-day Chamber Music Institute focused on artist training in partnership with Interlochen Center for the Arts.

The Akropolis Reed Quintet will provide a rich, adventurous and rewarding chamber music concert presented by Stockton’s Friends of Chamber Music. Come enjoy the concert.

Tickets are $30 and are available in the lobby of Faye Spanos Concert Hall at UOP starting at 2:00 pm, 30 minutes before the concert. Students of any age are admitted free.

The audience is invited to participate in a question and answer program with the artists in the concert hall following the concert.

Friends of Chamber Music concerts are presented in cooperation with the Pacific Conservatory of Music. For more information about the FOCM annual series, please call 559-786-8587 or visit www.chambermusicfriends.org.

The Akropolis Reed Quintet is represented by Ariel Artists, oni@arielartists.com, 857-472-3366