CAROLYN QUICK
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ABOUT

Carolyn is a “versatile young soprano” (Eugene Opera) with a “pure timbre” (Opera News) and “haunting” voice (Eugene Opera). With over a decade of vocal training, fifteen years of choral experience, and two years of involvement in both opera and early music, she has acquired a vast repertoire of vocal knowledge from a variety of periods and genres and is always eager to continue learning.  

SOLO & ENSEMBLE EXPERIENCE

Throughout her academic career, Carolyn sang with a wide variety of groups including the University of British Columbia's Early Music Ensemble,  Eugene Opera, University of Oregon Chamber Choir (competing at both the the 2013 Fleischmann International Trophy Competition, where the choir received first place, and the 2015 Internationaler Kammerchor-Wettbewerb Marktoberdorf, where the choir received second place),​ University of Oregon Opera Ensemble, and the Oregon Bach Festival. 

In addition to her work in various ensembles, Carolyn has also premiered over twelve contemporary works across North America and Europe (with pieces by composers such as Andrea Reinkemeyer and Cary Boyce), including three world premieres at the Uzmah-Upbeat International Summer School in Milna, Croatia, and two premieres at the 2016 Oregon Bach Festival's Composer's Symposium under the coaching of Roomful of Teeth’s Esteli Gomez and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon.
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Most recently, Carolyn performed in Persisting Sound's inaugural concert at the 2019 Siren Nation Festival and sang with In Medio during the Grotto's Festival of Lights. In 2019 she performed with the Portland Symphonic Choir and the Portland Phoenix Chamber Choir, competing at the Llangollen International Musical Eistedfodd in the UK; and she was also a guest soloist for both the Vivaldi Gloria with the South Puget Sound Community College Choirs in 2019 and the Student Orchestra of Greater Olympia's production of Handel's Messiah in 2018. 
Carolyn is currently a member of the Portland-based chamber choir In Medio, the Tabor Wind Ensemble, and new music group Persisting Sound.

Concert Soloist & Staged Performances 

Contemporary Performances

Britten: Turn of the Screw 
Miles, 
Eugene Opera, 2015
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Charpentier: 
Messe de Minuit Pour Noel
Portland Symphonic Choir, 2018

Gabrieli: In Ecclesiis A 14
Guest Soloist, University of British Columbia, 2018

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Amore, 
University of Oregon, 2016

Handel: Ottone HWV 15 - Affanni del Pensier 
University of British Columbia Early Music Ensemble, 2017

Handel:
Neun deutsche Arien HWV 209 - In den angenemen Büschen 
University of British Columbia Early Music Ensemble, 2016

Handel: 
Messiah HWV 56
Guest Soloist, 
Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia, 2018

Handel: Messiah HWV 56
Guest Soloist, 
Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia, 2018

Humperdink: Hansel und Gretel
Der Sandmann, University of Oregon, 2015

Steffani: Duetti da Camera - Lungi d'all idol mio

University of British Columbia Early Music Ensemble, 2017

Vivaldi: 
Gloria RV 589
Guest Soloist, 
South Puget Sound Community College, 2019
​Cary Boyce, One Perfect Rose
Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, 2016

Katerina Gimon, The Tracks Are Lonely
Portland, Oregon, 2019

Robert Humber,  Bells of Gray Crystal (World Premiere)
University of British Columbia, 2018

Edward Jiang, On the Beach at Night (World Premiere)
University of British Columbia, 2017

Jihyun Kim, Lullaby (World Premiere)

Uzmah-Upbeat International Summer Program, Croatia, 2017

Emily Lau, That It Will Never Come Again

Persisting Sound, Portland, Oregon 2020

Austin Mahar, When I am Dead, My Dearest (World Premiere)

University of British Columbia, 2017

Michael Malis, Nourishment (World Premiere)
Uzmah-Upbeat International Summer Program, Croatia, 2017

Wataru Niimori, Two Dickinson Songs (World Premiere)
Uzmah-Upbeat International Summer Program, Croatia, 2017

Carolyn Quick, Alleluia (World Premiere)
Persisting Sound, Portland, Oregon 2020

Carolyn Quick, The Rocking Chair (World Premiere)
University of British Columbia, 2018

Carolyn Quick, Pieces (World Premiere)
Portland, Oregon, 2019

Carolyn Quick, And If the Winter Comes (World Premiere)
Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, 2016

Carolyn Quick, By the Sea (World Premiere)
University of Oregon, 2016

Andrea Reinkemeyer, The Thaw (World Premiere)
University of Oregon, 2016

Aidan Ramsay,  
Smoke Billows 
University of Oregon, 2016

Drew Swatosh, Dead Fires​ (World Premiere)
Persisting Sound, Portland, Oregon, 2020

Walker Williams, Missa Brevis (World Premiere)
University of British Columbia, 2017

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For Scores and Performance Information

If you are interested in purchasing scores, commissioning me, or have inquiries about performances, please contact me via the contact page or my email: carolyn.a.quick@gmail.com.

Perusal scores are currently in the works!

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