Performer Biography

Carlyle Quinn, mezzo-soprano

“The assertive Mezzo” (Wall Street Journal) Carlyle Quinn has been making her mark as a young performer. Her recent operatic credits include: Ježibaba in Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka (Noorda Center for the Performing Arts), Meg Page in Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff (Cleveland Institute of Music Opera Theater), Oberon/ Hermia/Cobweb in a single production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Juilliard Opera Theater), Arcane (cover) in G.F. Händel’s Teseo (Juilliard Opera Theater x Juilliard415) Indiana Elliot in Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All (Juilliard Opera Theater x New York Philharmonic x The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s MetLiveArts Series), a modified characterization of Madame de Croissy in a devised adaption of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites (Juilliard Opera Theater), and Dido (cover) in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas (Juilliard Opera Theater x Juilliard415; touring venues: The Joye in Aiken Festival, Opera Holland Park, and the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles).

Some of her recent highlighted performances include: presenting selections from Bizet’s Carmen as the titular role in an opera gala presented by the Cleveland Institute of Music (2021), a Liederabend coached and curated by Maestro Pierre Vallet (2021), singing Mezzo II in Claude Debussy’s Nocturnes with The New York Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Emmanuel Villaume in David Geffen Hall (2020), an Operngala with Die Nürnberger Symphoniker under the baton of Maestro Hofstetter at Meistersingerhalle in Nürnberg, DE (2017), and singing the alto solo in the Haydn Mass in Time of War with The Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra in Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in (2016). She has participated in such programs as the Cleveland Art Song Festival (2022), Houston Grand Opera Young Artist Vocal Academy (2021), Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (2017), The Juilliard Pre-College Program (2014-2017) — where she studied with Lorraine Nubar and received generous scholarship from the George London Foundation — the Académie Internationale d’Été de Nice Lorraine Nubar Masterclass (2016), the Eppaner Lied Sommer Edith Wiens Masterclass (2016), the Washington National Opera Institute (2015), and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Vocal Program (2014). Ms. Quinn was an encouragement award winner in the Salt Lake City District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2022), a national finalist of the New York Lyric Opera Competition (2016), and the first place winner and recipient of the “Most Promising Sophomore Award” of the Schmidt Youth Vocal Competition (2015).

Ms. Quinn completes her Master of Music studies this year at The Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Mary Schiller. She was accepted at the prestigious Juilliard School at the age of sixteen and graduated with her Bachelor of Music in 2021, studying under the tutelage of Edith Wiens. She was a proud recipient of the Cecilia Entner Scholarship, the Madeline Elsemiller Scholarship in Voice, and the Alice Tully Scholarship.

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Ms. Quinn began her classical career quite young, singing the Shepherd Boy solo in Puccini’s Tosca with the Portland Opera (2013) at the age of thirteen and singing the Fairy 2 solo in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Oregon Ballet Theater (2015). She astounded local Portland-area audiences in MetroArts Inc.’s  Young Artists’ Debut! Concerto Concert series in 2014 and 2016 performing in Lincoln Hall and The Newmark Theatre with members of The Oregon Symphony and The Portland Opera Orchestra and was featured on All Classical Portland’s On Deck with Young Musicians Program.