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.
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.
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.
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 |
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Britten: Turn of the Screw
Miles, Eugene Opera, 2015 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 |