Experience an extraordinary evening of live music when two world-class ensembles share the stage — for FREE! Join the U.S. Air Force Concert Band featuring the GRAMMY-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet at Northern Virginia Community College’s Schlesinger Concert Hall in Alexandria!
Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 P.M.
Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall
2915 E Campus Drive
Alexandria, VA 22311
This concert is FREE and open to the public, however, tickets are required.
To reserve tickets, visit: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/usafband/concert-band-and-akropolis-reed-quintet
Founded in 2009, the Akropolis Reed Quintet is a Billboard-charting, 7-time national prize-winning ensemble whose 2025 recording of Strands won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Instrumental Composition at the 67th Annual GRAMMY® Awards. 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.
The Concert Band, stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., is one of six musical ensembles that form the U.S. Air Force Band. Featuring 52 active-duty musicians, the Concert Band performs across the United States via biannual tours, engages the local community in our nation’s capital through numerous concert series, and reaches millions globally through live radio, television, and internet broadcasts.
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