With stops in 11 states, 3 countries, concerts in collaboration with luminary series including the University Musical Society (UMS) Chamber Series, UChicago Presents, Bravo! Vail, Tuesday Musical, Trinity by the Cove, an album release with Pascal Le Boeuf and Christian Euman, and world premieres by Derrick Skye, Stephanie Ann Boyd, Oswald Huỳnh, and more, we can't wait to celebrate this milestone season with you!

 USArtists 
International Award

Akropolis to visit Amsterdam to perform on the PAN Festival alongside the Calefax Reed Quintet on January 6, 2024

This engagement is supported in part by Mid Atlantic Arts through USArtists International, a program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
 

Chamber Music America

classical commissioning

grant award

Akropolis & Composer Derrick Skye

 

Akropolis' largest commission and premiere of their 23/24 season is a new reed quintet by LA-based composer Derrick Skye funded by Akropolis’s 2nd Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning grant. Lauded for being “enormous fun to listen to” (The Times, London), Derrick Skye’s works have recently been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, and his new Electro-Acoustic Opera “Song of the Ambassadors'' recently premiered at Lincoln Center. His new reed quintet work, A Soulful Nexus, is a transcultural classical work that blends elements of Persian classical music with ornamental vocal techniques found in solo Balkan vocal melodies, and the groove-based polyrhythms characteristic of electronic dance music.