Composer

"Born in 1994, Portland-based Carolyn Quick is establishing herself as one of the most important voices in our community."
​- Makrokosmos Project 

Carolyn’s commissions include Portland’s audacious Fear No Music, Eugene Opera’s call for scores: Songs for Quarantine, up-and-coming Canadian Chamber Orchestra Symphony 21, and the Vancouver Opera’s New Works Project. Her works have been performed across Canada and the United States as well as Croatia by ensembles such as the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the South Puget Sound College Orchestra, the Erato Ensemble, and Ontario chamber choir Myriad Ensemble. Carolyn has also been a participant in festivals such as Art Song Lab, working with Rodney Sharman; Vancouver Pro Musica’s Sonic Boom Festival working with Dorothy Chang, Owen Underhill, and the Erato Ensemble; Uzmah-Upbeat International Summer School in Croatia, working with Joel Hoffmann; and the Oregon Bach Festival Composer’s Symposium as a composer and Vocal Fellow, performing under the guidance of Roomful of Teeth’s Estelí Gomez and workshopping her music with composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. 
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Most recently, Carolyn has been working with Persisting Sound: a new music collective that seeks to perform works by underrepresented composers. Since co-founding the group with Savannah Gentry, Carolyn has worked as an administrator, music curator, composer, and performer.

Carolyn is also a singer/instrumentalist and poet, performing with ensembles like Eugene Opera, Portland Symphonic Choir, and the Oregon Bach Festival Chamber Choir (in association with the UO Chamber Choir); and has several poems published with the East County Poetry Group. 

​She is currently a part of In Medio, Tabor Wind Ensemble, Persisting Sound, and The African American Requiem Choir.
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Carolyn holds a MMus in Composition from the University of British Columbia and a BMus from the University of Oregon, and has studied with: Jocelyn Morlock, Dorothy Chang, Stephen Chatman, Robert Kyr, David Crumb, and Terry McQuilkin.