DIGITAL CONCERT PROGRAM
June 13, 2026
AKROPOLIS REED QUINTET
Akropolis Chamber Music Institute 2026 Festival Finale #2
We're so glad you're here! As a little thank you for coming to our concert, enjoy this free WAV 88.2K download of the track “Strands” from our GRAMMY® Award-winning album Are We Dreaming The Same Dream? released April, 2024.
Concert
Program
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Performers
Matt Landry, Meng Yuan, Aidan Ramirez, Alyssa Mena, Xujing Yao, Milo Holcombe PomeranceProgram notes
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Performers
Tim Gocklin, Lucy Croasdale, Hannah Wolkowitz, Meng Yuan, Aidan Ramirez, Xujing Yao, Ethan Hicks, Sara LeBlancProgram Notes
I. So-Not-A
II. Capriccio
III. Hyper-Chorale -
Performers
Andrew Koeppe, Ryan Reynolds, Cooper Taylor, Kaitlyn Beasley-Zeitler, James Aldous, Milo Holcombe PomeranceProgram Notes
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Performers
Ryan Reynolds, Regan Pilgrim, Kellen Ko, David Hilt, Mark Doerr
Program Notes
I. Dance of Ritual
II. Dance of Expression
III. Dance of Joy -
Performers
Tim Gocklin, Caleb DeLong, Alyssa Mena, Xujing Yao, Kaitlyn Beasley-ZeitlerProgram Notes
II. In Heaven
IV. Far Away -
Performers
Benjamin Graham, Meng Yuan, John GriffinProgram Notes
I. Allegro
III. Allegro
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
TIM GOCKLIN, OBOE
Known for his “remarkably beautiful oboe playing” (Fanfare Magazine), GRAMMY® Award-winning Tim Gocklin is the oboist of the Akropolis Reed Quintet and serves as Artist-in-Residence in Oboe and woodwind chamber music coordinator at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO. Prior to his present position in Colorado, Tim lived in New Haven, CT and performed in a wide variety of settings with ensembles such as The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Le Train Bleu, New York Chamber Soloists, Mozart Orchestra of New York under the direction of Gerard Schwarz, the Argus String Quartet, and The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway.
Tim is a two-time winner of the Yale School of Music’s Chamber Music Competition. In 2013, he performed works by Hindemith in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall as part of the Yale in New York series. He has performed at Chamber Music Northwest with David Shifrin and oboist Allan Vogel in a program of Dvorak’s Wind Serenade, Op. 44 and Mozart’s Gran Partita in B-flat, KV 361. He has appeared at the Caramoor Festival with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Cape Cod Music Festival, the Yellow Barn Music Festival, the Colorado Music Festival under the direction of Peter Oundjian, and held fellowships at the Norfolk and Sarasota Chamber Music Festivals.
Tim can be heard on the NAXOS and Block M record labels, including two recordings with the University of Michigan Symphony Band. These works were taken on a tour to China where the band performed at Beijing’s National Centre for the Arts and Shanghai’s Grand Theatre.
In 2012, Tim received his Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the University of Michigan where he studied with Dr. Nancy Ambrose King. He subsequently completed his Master of Music degree and an Artist Diploma at Yale University studying with Stephen Taylor.
ANDY HUDSON, GUEST CLARINETIST
Performances by Andy Hudson have been hailed as “a treat for the listener” (IAWM Journal) and have been praised for “an uncommon singularity of purpose, technical virtuosity, youthful vigor and a mature sensitivity” (The Clarinet). An “inspiring” (MMR) and “fearless” (Cacophony) performer, he has performed widely across North America, Europe, and Africa in solo, chamber, and orchestral settings in some of the world’s great venues. Praised for his “measured sophistication and expansive phrasing” (Voix des Artes), Andy has been a top prizewinner at the MTNA National Woodwind Competition and has received other prizes in numerous competitions. He has recently performed with the Atlanta, Charlotte, Sarasota, and North Carolina symphonies, and was appointed Bass/3rd Clarinetist of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in 2020; other festival appearances include the Lucerne, Bang on a Can, Hot Air, Sound Atlas, and Great Lakes Chamber Music festivals.
“Truly a performer for the moment” (CVNC) with an “irrepressible musicality” (The Clarinet), Andy is a noted interpreter of contemporary music and has premiered 200+ works to date. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on their MusicNOW series and is clarinetist/bass clarinetist with Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble and the Raleigh-based ensemble earspace. He is Artistic Director and clarinetist with the international sextet Latitude 49, with whom he can be heard on the albums The Bagatelles Project, Wax and Wire (called “a must-have album for any lover of contemporary music” by The College Music Symposium), Don’t Say A Word, and Obsolete Music. His debut solo album halfway home released in 2022 on Potenza Music (called “exceptional” by The Clarinet) and his two books on contemporary pedagogy, Elements of Contemporary Clarinet Technique and SPACE BASS: Advanced Explorations for Bass Clarinet, are co-authored with Roger Zare for Conway Publications.
Andy joined the faculty of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music as Associate Professor of Clarinet in the Fall of 2023, and has given guest masterclasses at many of them world’s great centers for musical study, including conservatories and universities in Romania, South Korea, Egypt, Canada, and across the United States. Previously, he taught at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where he was a nominee for the James Y. Joyner Award for Teaching Excellence and the NC State Chair for the International Clarinet Association. Andy is an Artist-Clinician for Buffet Crampon, a Vandoren Performing Artist, and an Ambassador for Rovner Products; he holds degrees from Northwestern University (DMA, MMus) and the Schwob School of Music (BMus). When he’s not practicing, you are likely to find him cycling, trail running, reading, or listening to baseball on the radio.
MATT LANDRY, SAXOPHONE
Matt Landry is the GRAMMY® Award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet’s saxophonist and Executive Director of Akropolis’ 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. He is one of the most active classical saxophonists in the world today. He has twice appeared on the Classical Billboard Charts and is one of a handful of classical saxophonists to ever perform on the University Musical Society series. He has won 7 national chamber music prizes including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal. He was an adjudicator for the 2019 Chamber Music Yellow Springs National Chamber Music Competition and the 2023 NOLA Chamber Fest competition.
Matt has performed in close collaboration with Avery Fisher Career Grant recipients Jennifer Frautschi and the Dover Quartet, as well as clarinetist David Shifrin, BodyVox Dance, soprano Shara Nova, and Grammy-winning trumpeter Kris Johnson. In August 2024 he will present concerts with the Horszowski Trio.
Matt was selected by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs as a 2018/19 Rising Leader among arts and cultural organizations in Michigan. He is a former middle school band director and worked as a community engagement specialist for the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce for four years. He has taught two courses for music majors at Michigan State University on entrepreneurship and fundraising and leads dozens of arts entrepreneurship workshops each year at universities nationwide. Matt is responsible for Akropolis’ award-winning projects, including 6 commercially released albums, commissioning more than 150 composers, and receiving grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and numerous other foundations. He has given master classes at more than 50 colleges and leads Akropolis’ Mastermind career development workshop.
Matt received his Bachelor’s degree Summa Cum Laude in Music Education and Saxophone from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Donald Sinta. He was a James B. Angell Scholar and commencement flag bearer.
ANDREW KOEPPE, BASS CLARINET
The Akropolis Reed Quintet’s bass clarinetist and an Ann Arbor, MI native, GRAMMY® Award-winning Andrew Koeppe majored in clarinet at the University of Michigan and studied with Chad Burrow, Deborah Chodacki, and Monica Kaenzig. Andrew can be heard on two University of Michigan Symphony Band albums, including interactions with acclaimed soloists Nancy Ambrose King and Adam Unsworth, as well as the premiere of William Bolcom’s Symphony for Band. He was the featured clarinet soloist in Bolcom’s band orchestration of “Graceful Ghost Rag” on the University of Michigan Symphony Band CD release, Artifacts. He has also performed with the Final Fantasy Symphony in Ann Arbor and with New Music Detroit, performing Annie Gosfield’s Detroit Industry at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Andrew also attended the Buffet-Crampon USA Clarinet Academy in Jacksonville, FL in 2009 where he studied with clarinetists Eugene Mondie, Dan Gilbert, Andre Moisan, and Ixi Chen. In 2009 he played principal clarinet and bass clarinet in a small orchestral ensemble of select University of Michigan students in a weeklong multimedia workshop and final performance of Ask Your Mama with composer Laura Carpman, curator Jessye Norman, and conductor George Manahan. This new work later premiered at Carnegie Hall.
Andrew enjoys teaching a large and exuberant studio of clarinet and bass clarinet players in Ann Arbor, MI.
RYAN REYNOLDS, BASSOON
Dr. Ryan Reynolds is the Assistant Professor of Bassoon and Chamber Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he teaches bassoon, chamber music, reed-making, and graduate practicum courses in instrumental music pedagogy and contemporary techniques. Before coming to UNCG, he taught at Eastern Michigan University in Michigan, Heidelberg University in Ohio, and Miami University in Ohio.
Dr. Reynolds the bassoonist of the GRAMMY® Award-winning ensemble Akropolis Reed Quintet, and is known for his pedagogy, activity within the American chamber music circuit, output as a recording artist, and commitment to creative and collaborative artmaking. An award-winning chamber musician, Dr. Reynolds has won prizes at six national chamber music competitions, including the Gold Medal at the 2014 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
As a member of Akropolis, Dr. Reynolds tours internationally and has released six studio albums with the ensemble. The most recent album, Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?, was released in April 2024 in collaboration with composer/pianist Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman, and won a 2025 GRAMMY® Award. Dr. Reynolds has performed with orchestras throughout the United States including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, and Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
In addition to his prolific performance output, Dr. Reynolds served on the faculties of the Renova Music Festival and the Maine Chamber Music Seminar, and currently teaches each summer at the Interlochen Adult Chamber Music Camp and the Akropolis Chamber Music Institute. He has given masterclasses and lectures in Canada, Germany, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and at many American colleges and universities.
Dr. Reynolds is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, holds a Bachelor of Music (BM) and Master of Music (MM) from the University of Michigan, and a Doctor of Music (DM) from Florida State University. He is grateful to his teachers Eric Stomberg, Jeffrey Lyman, and Jeff Keesecker. Reynolds is a Fox Artist and performs exclusively on a Fox 601 bassoon.
ABOUT AKROPOLIS
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.
Composed of the same five members that brought about its founding over 15 years ago 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. Akropolis became the first ever GRAMMY® winning reed quintet with their 2024 album, Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?, in collaboration with Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman, taking home Best Instrumental Composition for the track “Strands” at the 67th Grammy Awards held in February, 2025.
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 and mentorship in Petoskey, MI.
Described as “pure gold” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Akropolis Reed Quintet performs worldwide and is represented exclusively by Ariel Artists.
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