2025 GRAMMY® WINNER: STRANDS
“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, Akropolis has graced the Classical Billboard Charts with each of their last three albums, including #2 in April, 2024, 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 quintet. Read More +
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Announcing our 7th album! A Soulful Nexus by Derrick Skye out 9.25.26
Following a 2025 GRAMMY® win for Strands by Pascal Le Boeuf, the Akropolis Reed Quintet presents A Soulful Nexus by Derrick Skye. The quintet’s 7th release is an album-length transcultural work shaped by deep listening across musical traditions. Persian classical music, Balkan vocal lines, and electronic dance rhythms intersect through intricate ornamentation and microtonal color. Across five movements, a kaleidoscope of geographies and sonic languages—rhythmic, polyphonic, groove-based, and meditative—interweave to reveal a shared purpose: music that listens to the world. Read more and pre-order/pre-save the album here.
Strands Won A GRAMMY®!
We are so proud to announce that Strands has won a GRAMMY® Award for Best Instrumental Composition by the incredible Pascal Le Boeuf with drummer Christian Euman! This is a dream come true for Akropolis, and we’re deeply humbled to be the first reed quintet in history to win a GRAMMY®! Read more about our time at the 67th GRAMMY® Awards on February 2, 2025, and listen to our full album, Are We Dreaming The Same Dream? here.
