Los Alamos Concert Association

06/20/2025

What a fabulous time with last Saturday! Attendee, Jane Lin, reflected: "The unique combination of instruments was exciting. I could hear each voice, and it was a pleasure witnessing the artistry of each musician and the interplay among them. It was moving to hear Oswald Huynh introduce his piece inspired by Vietnamese folk songs and different cultural perspectives on the nature of time."

06/18/2025

Thank you Akropolis Reed Quintet for closing out our 2024-2025 season with a fantastic concert followed by a delicious dinner at beef & leaf! Attendees enjoyed the chance to talk with Akropolis members and composer Oswald Huynh about life as professional musicians, the creative process of putting together each concert program, and the collaboration with composers writing music for such a unique ensemble.

06/07/2025

Akropolis Reed Quintet performing TOMORROW, June 7, 2025 at 3 PM, Duane Smith Auditorium, LAHS

Dinner with the Artists post-concert!

Featuring works by Ryan Lindveit, Derrick Skye, and Oswald Huynh who will introduce “These Few Specks of Time.”

Tickets here: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/losalamosconcert/6559/

Akropolis’ chief collaborators are youth and their Detroit community. Winner of the 2015 Fischoff Educator Award and a nonprofit organization which has received 7 consecutive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Akropolis runs a summer festival in Detroit called Together We Sound and holds an annual, school year long residency at Cass Tech, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Detroit School of Arts high schools. Akropolis believes anyone can compose great music and during their 22-23 season premiered and recorded more than 30 works by youth aged 12-22.

An engine perpetually generating new sounds and ideas, Akropolis’ 23-24 season will include world premieres by Derrick Skye and Stephanie Ann Boyd; performances of Are We Dreaming the Same Dream? with 2-time Grammy-nominated composer/pianist Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman; imaginative renditions of music by Ravel and Gershwin; and the release of their 6th full length commercial album on the Bright Shiny Things label.

06/04/2025

Akropolis Reed Quintet performing THISSATURDAY, June 7, 2025 at 3 PM
Dinner with the Artists post-concert
Duane Smith Auditorium, LAHS
Featuring works by Ryan Lindveit, Derrick Skye, and Oswald Huynh who will introduce “These Few Specks of Time.”

Tickets here: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/losalamosconcert/6559/

In November 2023 Akropolis became the first reed quintet to grace the luminary University Musical Society (UMS) stage, and previously have appeared on Oneppo (Yale University), Chamber Music San Antonio, Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.), Summerwinds Münster (Germany), Flagler Museum (Palm Beach), and many more. The “rise of the reed quintet” (Chamber Music America) and Akropolis’ “infallible musicality and huge vitality” (Fanfare) make them one of the most sought-after chamber ensembles today.

Experimenters and creators at their core, “there’s nothing tentative in their approach, and that extends to their programming of multifariously challenging and imaginative new works” (The Wire). Akropolis has collaborated with poets, a metal fabricator, dancers, small business owners, string quartets, pop vocalists, and more. Currently, Akropolis is collaborating with GRAMMY-nominated pianist/composer Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman on their 6th album and touring program drawing classical and jazz idioms together to reflect on American identity, entitled, Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?
Pascal Le Boeuf

06/01/2025

The Albuquerque Journal has a terrific article about our upcoming concert with Akropolis Reed Quintet on Saturday, June 7th at 3 pm. Learn about the program they will be playing and the surprising reason why "Akropolis" ended up in their name!

Fresh off the heels of their 2025 Grammy win for Best Instrumental Composition, the Akropolis Reed Quintet will perform in Los Alamos on Saturday, June 7. The concert program includes three works by contemporary classical composers, whom the group commissioned, as well as the 1934 song, “For All W...

06/01/2025

Postcard reminders for the Akropolis Reed Quintet concert went out this week!

If you're not on our mailing list and would like to be, please sign up for our event emails right here!
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We will also have a table at Chamberfest taking place on Saturday, June 7 from 10 am to 2 pm. Stop by to be one of the first to see our 2025-2026 season brochure!

05/31/2025

Postcard reminders for the Akropolis Reed Quintet concert went out this week! If you're not on our mailing list and would like to be, please message us! We will also have a table at Chamberfest taking place on Saturday, June 7 from 10 am to 2 pm, Stop by to be one of the first to see our 2025-2026 season schedule!

05/31/2025

Join us! For the exuberant Akropolis Reed Quintet on Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 3 pm
Dinner with the Artists post-concert
Duane Smith Auditorium, LAHS

Featuring works by Ryan Lindveit, Derrick Skye, and Oswald Huynh who will introduce “These Few Specks of Time.”

Tickets here: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/losalamosconcert/6559/

Celebrating their 15th year as “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine) and a “collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure” (The Wire), Akropolis has “taken the chamber music world by storm” (Fanfare). As the first reed quintet to twice grace the Billboard Charts (2021, 2022), the untamed band of 5 reed players and entrepreneurs are united by a shared passion: to make music that sparks joy and wonder.

Winner of 7 national chamber music prizes including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, Akropolis performs “works that brilliantly exploit their unique instrumentation” (Gramophone). Remaining the same 5 members since their founding in 2009, Akropolis delivers 120 concerts and educational events worldwide each year and has premiered and commissioned over 130 works by living artists and composers.

Beef and Leaf Cafe

05/31/2025

Thank you to Chef Laura Crucet and beef & leaf for working with us to plan the post-concert dinner with Akropolis and composer Oswald Huynh! Patrons can dine at tables alongside the members of the quintet, affording them a chance for a more intimate interaction with the musicians.

The menu includes hors d'oeuvres, an assortment of small plates for the first course, choice of second plate, and petit four platters for dessert (blackberry lemon tartlets, peach creme brulée spoons, french macarons, and chocolate toffee bites).

Less than 20 tickets remain ($70 each). Please call us at (505) 662-9000 to reserve a seat and complete your purchase at the concert.

Beef and Leaf Cafe

05/30/2025

Akropolis Reed Quintet
Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 3 pm
Dinner with the Artists post-concert
Duane Smith Auditorium, LAHS

Featuring works by Ryan Lindveit, Derrick Skye, and Oswald Huynh who will introduce “These Few Specks of Time.”

Tickets ($40) online and before the performance at the box office.
Students 6-18 and music educators free.

Dinner with the Artists post-concert ($70).
Contact LACA to reserve at 505.662.9000.

“A collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure.” —THE WIRE

05/19/2025

Thank you to Chef Laura Crucet and beef & leaf for working with us to plan the post-concert dinner with Akropolis and composer Oswald Huynh! The menu includes hors d'oeuvres, an assortment of small plates for the first course, choice of second plate, and petit four platters for dessert (blackberry lemon tartlets, peach creme brulée spoons, french macarons, and chocolate toffee bites). Less than 20 tickets remain ($70 each). Please call us at (505) 662-9000 to reserve a seat and complete your purchase at the concert.