featured compositions & arrangements
​With a “deft touch at crafting melodies and textures” (Charles Rose, Oregon ArtsWatch), Portland-based “local rockstar composer” (New Wave Opera) and soprano Carolyn Quick (she/her) writes “deeply meaningful,” music about our fundamental, shared human experiences, making a “huge impact on both singers and audiences” (Dr. Justin Smith) and "establishing herself as one of the most important voices in our community" (Makrokosmos Project 7). Her music utilizes a "delicate and sensitive use of orchestration" (Sean Bickerton, Canadian Music Centre) combined with “evocative text painting,” and “flowing modal melodies,” that results in music with “a refreshing levity to its rhythms” (Rose). Past commissions include the Portland Phoenix Chamber Choir, In Medio Chamber Choir, Fear No Music, Eugene Opera, University of Oregon Chamber Choir, and Queens University of Charlotte’s Royal Voices, who featured two separately commissioned works in their winning competition sets at the XIX International Choral Kathaumixw and the 28th International Choir Competition of Preveza in Greece, receiving a Special Jury Prize for Best Performance of a Contemporary Piece. Notable recent projects include collaborations with British Columbia based-poet JCCortens and Seattle-based actor, fight director, and writer Raya Tuffaha for the National Association of Teachers of Singing Composer Mentorship Program and the Seattle Opera Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab.

featured projects
For a list of upcoming performances, premieres, and projects, please visit my Calendar Page for all of the dates, details, & links!


recent press

What makes a home?: New Wave Opera previews Caroline Louise Miller's upcoming "opera Deep Water"
​​​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 feat pulls it back in." It was a brief but powerful piece"

Sitting in the Moment: Introducing Raindrop New Music
​​Oregon ArtsWatch

 "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" ​​

Between the tragic and comic: New Wave Opera's "Night of the Living Opera"
​Oregon ArtsWatch

Quick was demure and prideful, flicking her hair about and crossing her legs as she describes her recent kills." ​​​​​​

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