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Carolyn Quick has a deft touch at crafting melodies and textures. Her music combines flowing modal melodies, evocative text painting and a refreshing levity to its rhythms
Sitting in the Moment: Introducing Raindrop New Music
- Oregon ArtsWatch
Quick's text uses frost as a metaphor for the chilling of dissent: "there's always been/A silent shroud to let the silence out/Until the fear pulls it back in. It was a brief, but powerful piece
What makes a home?: New Wave Opera previews Caroline Louise Miller's upcoming opera "Deep Water"
- Oregon ArtsWatch
Carolyn Quick is known to fans of Oregon choral and percussion music (she's sung with In Medio, Resonance Ensemble, and Cappella Romana: her music has been performed by New Wave Opera, Choral Arts Ensemble, Makrokosmos Project, Fear No Music, Portland Percussion Group, and so on
The Oregon School of Composition: A Snapshot, circa early 2025
- Oregon ArtsWatch 
Quick was demure and prideful, flicking her hair about and crossing her legs as she describes her recent kills."
Between the tragic and comic: New Wave Opera's "Night of the Living Opera"
- Oregon ArtsWatch
It's a mistake to see this as a battle for "wokeness" or representation. What matters is the music. Pop music would be a less vibrant place without Laurie Anderson, Bjork, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Lizzo, or Lorde. Similarly, classical music would be a lot less vibrant without Shaw, Ustvolskaya, [Carolyn] Quick, Monk, and all the rest. As this program demonstrates, femininity is complex.
Music by uncommon women: Makrokosmos 7
- Oregon ArtsWatch 
Hard-to-cast Miles was sung by college-undergrad soprano Carolyn Quick, whose pure timbre was such that anyone blindfolded would have taken her for a precocious boy treble.
The Turn of the Screw
​- Opera News
The call for scores Songs for Quarantine asked classical composers to send us work written for singers that reflect on the crises that we have faced in 2020. Thematic topics included challenges of quarantine, social distancing, relationships, COVID-19 response, medical heroism, intergenerational concerns, racial issues, poverty, policing, and personal reflections.
Eugene Opera Announces Winners for Call for Scores
​​- Eugene Opera
Written oral testimony by Kavanaugh and/or his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, becomes spoken or sung text with live acoustic and/or electronic sounds in...Portland composer Carolyn Quick's Stop the Clock and Andrea Reinkemeyer's Opening Up.
Hearing Injustice
​​- Oregon ArtsWatch
Written oral testimony by Kavanaugh and/or his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, becomes spoken or sung text with live acoustic and/or electronic sounds in...Portland composer Carolyn Quick's Stop the Clock and Andrea Reinkemeyer's Opening Up.
Hearing Injustice
​​- Oregon ArtsWatch
The deliberate juxtaposition of a canonic Mozart masterwork with recently composed music is part of the vision. The latter is an accessible, folksong-oriented work, Appalachian Suite, by Portland-based composer Carol[yn] Quick, who also recently completed her UBC master's degree.
Symphony 21st Test Drives New Approaches
​​​- Vancouver Sun
You will also hear...a new setting of In the Bleak Midwinter by Portland composer and soprano Carolyn Quick, founding member and soprano section leader for In Medio Choir. Quick, Swatosh...and Lisa Neher are co-founders of Raindrop New Music.
Symphony 21st Test Drives New Approaches
​​​- Vancouver Sun