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COMPOSER-FOCUSED BIO (200 WORDS)
Portland-based composer and soprano Carolyn Quick (she/her) is “a composer of growing renown” (Dr. Justin Smith) and “one of the most important voices in our community” (Makrokosmos Project). With her “deft touch at crafting melodies and textures" (Charles Rose, Oregon ArtsWatch) and "delicate and sensitive use of orchestration" (Sean Bickerton, Canadian Music Centre), Carolyn’s music has “a refreshing levity to its rhythms” (Rose). She writes music that is “deeply meaningful,” making a “huge impact on both singers and audiences” (Smith) as she “combines flowing modal melodies,” and “evocative text painting” (Rose). Recent commissions include the Portland Phoenix Chamber Choir, Fear No Music, Eugene Opera, and Queens University of Charlotte’s Royal Voices, who featured her work in their winning competition set at the 28th International Choir Competition of Preveza in Greece, where it received the Special Jury Prize for Best Performance of a Contemporary Piece.
Carolyn also advocates for historically excluded composers and co-founded new music collective Persisting Sound and music distribution collective Raindrop New Music to uplift those voices.
Outside of the music-sphere, Carolyn enjoys walking the trails of Portland parks, admiring all of the cute dogs she spots on said walks, and spending time with her family.
Carolyn also advocates for historically excluded composers and co-founded new music collective Persisting Sound and music distribution collective Raindrop New Music to uplift those voices.
Outside of the music-sphere, Carolyn enjoys walking the trails of Portland parks, admiring all of the cute dogs she spots on said walks, and spending time with her family.
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COMPOSER-FOCUSED BIO (150 WORDS)
Portland-based composer and soprano Carolyn Quick (she/her) is “a composer of growing renown” (Dr. Justin Smith) and “one of the most important voices in our community” (Makrokosmos Project). With her “deft touch at crafting melodies and textures" (Charles Rose, Oregon ArtsWatch) and "delicate and sensitive use of orchestration" (Sean Bickerton, Canadian Music Centre), Carolyn’s music has “a refreshing levity to its rhythms” (Rose), and is “deeply meaningful,” making a “huge impact on both singers and audiences” (Smith). Recent commissions include Fear No Music, Eugene Opera, Seattle Opera, and Cincinnati Song Initiative.
Carolyn also helped found new music group Persisting Sound and music distributer Raindrop New Music to help advocate for historically excluded composers.
When she isn’t singing, Carolyn enjoys hiking, spotting cute dogs, and spending time with family and friends.
Carolyn also helped found new music group Persisting Sound and music distributer Raindrop New Music to help advocate for historically excluded composers.
When she isn’t singing, Carolyn enjoys hiking, spotting cute dogs, and spending time with family and friends.
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SINGER-FOCUSED BIO (150 WORDS)
With a voice known for its “pure timbre” (Opera News), Portland Composer-Soprano Carolyn Quick’s (she/her) performance credits include Eugene Opera’s production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw, Handel’s Messiah with Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia, Vivaldi’s Gloria, RV 589 with South Puget Sound Community College, and Charpentier’s Messe de minuit Pour Noel with Portland Symphonic Choir. Carolyn has sung with Queer Opera, Uzmah-Upbeat Summer Music Program, and Oregon Bach Festival’s Vocal Fellows Program. She is also an avid chorister, singing with Cappella Romana, Resonance Ensemble, and In Medio.
As a composer and singer, Carolyn has a love for contemporary music and has premiered over a dozen contemporary works. Most recently, Carolyn competed in the NATS Classical Student Auditions, advancing to the National Round with a program spanning Margaret Bonds to Charles Gounod.
When she isn’t singing, Carolyn enjoys hiking, spotting cute dogs, and spending time with family and friends.
As a composer and singer, Carolyn has a love for contemporary music and has premiered over a dozen contemporary works. Most recently, Carolyn competed in the NATS Classical Student Auditions, advancing to the National Round with a program spanning Margaret Bonds to Charles Gounod.
When she isn’t singing, Carolyn enjoys hiking, spotting cute dogs, and spending time with family and friends.
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SINGER-FOCUSED BIO (50 WORDS)
With a voice known for its “pure timbre” (Opera News), Portland Composer-Soprano Carolyn Quick’s (she/her) performance credits include Eugene Opera, Queer Opera, Uzmah-Upbeat Summer Music Program, and Oregon Bach Festival’s Vocal Fellows Program. She's also an avid chorister, singing with Cappella Romana, In Medio, and Portland Symphonic Choir.
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Poetry
Carolyn is also a published poet and has had several of her poems set to music. For anyone using her poetry for a project, please use this bio below.
WRITER-FOCUSED BIO (150 WORDS)
Composer-soprano-lyricist and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Quick (she/her) has always loved poetry and has been writing for well over a decade. As she began to pursue a career in music, poetry served a vital role in the raw expression of her life experiences, free of stress and constraint.
She has set several of her poems to music in works such as: Pieces, Not I Alone, Stop the Clock (which blends her words with quotations from the 2018 Kavanaugh Hearings Transcripts), and To Breathe which was selected for the Eugene Opera's call for scores: Songs for Quarantine. At Art Song Lab, Carolyn participated in several poetry workshops offered by Elee Kraljii Gardiner. Her works have also been set to music by composer Drew Swatosh (they/them) in Dead Fires Anthology. She is published in the East County Poetry Group's East County Poetry: Lent 2019 - Epiphany 2020. For more information, visit: www.carolynquick.com.
She has set several of her poems to music in works such as: Pieces, Not I Alone, Stop the Clock (which blends her words with quotations from the 2018 Kavanaugh Hearings Transcripts), and To Breathe which was selected for the Eugene Opera's call for scores: Songs for Quarantine. At Art Song Lab, Carolyn participated in several poetry workshops offered by Elee Kraljii Gardiner. Her works have also been set to music by composer Drew Swatosh (they/them) in Dead Fires Anthology. She is published in the East County Poetry Group's East County Poetry: Lent 2019 - Epiphany 2020. For more information, visit: www.carolynquick.com.
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