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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" ​​

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"

The Oregon School of Composition: A Snapshot, circa early 2025
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)."

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." ​​​​​​

Music by uncommon women: Makrokosmos 7
​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. Björk, 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."

The Turn of the Screw
Opera News

"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."

Eugene Opera Announces Winners for Call for Scores
Eugene Opera

"The Call for Scores for Songs for Quarantine asked classical composers to send us works 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."

Hearing Injustice
​Oregon ArtsWatch

"Written and oral testimony by Kavanaugh and/or his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, becomes spoken or sung text mixed with live acoustic and/or electronic sounds in...Portland composer Carolyn Quick’s Stop the Clock and Reinkemeyer’s Opening Up." ​​

Symphony 21 Test Drives New Approaches
Vancouver Sun

"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 Caro[lyn] Quick, who also recently completed her UBC master’s degree."

Comforting and joyful: a choral holiday season, part one
​Oregon ArtsWatch

"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."