Hosted by the Basilica of Ste. Anne de Détroit while they undergo a historic renovation of their building, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet is excited to be returning home to Detroit, MI to give a free concert at the Most Holy Trinity Church as a part of their 2026 Together We Sound Festival.
This concert celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States with a concert of American composers that honors the diverse fabric of America's musical history.
This performance is part of our 2026 Together We Sound Festival taking place across Detroit, Cheboygan, and Ann Arbor, MI. Together We Sound presents world premieres in collaboration with local and national artists and Detroit youth, concerts for businesses and essential workers, pop-up shows in public spaces, K-12 outreach, public performances, and a school year-length residency at three Detroit high schools. Learn more.
Together We Sound is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of America250, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, the Kresge Foundation, the Michigan Arts & Culture Council, and the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation.
About This Event
Hosted by the Basilica of Ste. Anne de Détroit while they undergo a historic renovation of their building, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet is excited to be returning home to Detroit, MI to give a free concert at the Most Holy Trinity Church as a part of their 2026 Together We Sound Festival.
This concert celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States with a concert of American composers that honors the diverse fabric of America's musical history.
This performance is part of our 2026 Together We Sound Festival taking place across Detroit, Cheboygan, and Ann Arbor, MI. Together We Sound presents world premieres in collaboration with local and national artists and Detroit youth, concerts for businesses and essential workers, pop-up shows in public spaces, K-12 outreach, public performances, and a school year-length residency at three Detroit high schools. Learn more.
Together We Sound is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of America250, the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, the Kresge Foundation, the Michigan Arts & Culture Council, and the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation.
About Akropolis
Founded in 2009, the GRAMMY® Award-winning, 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).
Celebrating their 16th season as “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine), the GRAMMY® Award-winningAkropolis Reed Quintet comprises five reed players and entrepreneurs unbounded by limits or categorization. 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). Composed of the same five members that brought about its founding in 2009, Akropolis delivers 120 concerts and educational events worldwide each year and has premiered and commissioned more than 150 works by living artists and composers.
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 6th album, Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?, with two-time GRAMMY-nominated composer/pianist Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman, was released in April 2024 on Bright Shiny Things.
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. The ensemble runs a Detroit-based summer festival called Together We Sound and holds annual, school year-long music composition residencies at Cass Tech, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Detroit School of Arts high schools. Akropolis also produces the Akropolis Chamber Music Institute, a 10-day artist training and mentorship program in Petoskey, MI.
Described as “pure gold” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Akropolis Reed Quintet performs worldwide.
