Lyricist, composer, soprano, and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Quick (b. 1994) has always had a love for poetry and has been writing for well over a decade. As she began to pursue a career in music, poetry served a vital role in the raw expression of her life experiences, free of stress and constraint.
She has set several of her poems to music in works such as: Pieces, featured in Persisting Sound's inaugural concert in 2019; Not I Alone, premiered during the 2018 Sonic Boom Festival in Vancouver, BC; Stop the Clock, a work commissioned by Fear No Music which blends her words from There is Frost with quotations from the 2018 Kavanaugh Hearings Transcripts;and To Breathewhich sets two of her poems (Centeringand "Riots") and was recently selected for the Eugene Opera's call for scores: Songs for Quarantine. At Art Song Lab, Carolyn participated in several poetry workshops offered by Trauma Headauthor Elee Kraljii Gardiner.