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The American soprano, Molly Quinn, holds both the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Vocal Performance from University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (2001).
Molly Quinn has captivated audiences with her “radiant” soprano, possessing an “arresting sweetness and simplicity” (The New York Times). She has garnered praise for her thought provoking and delightful interpretation of music from the medieval to the modern, from Monteverdi to the Rolling Stones. She has collaborated with notable arts organizations around the globe including the Knights NYC, TENET Vocal Artists (Director: Jolle Greenleaf), Portland Baroque Orchestra, Apollo's Fire (Director: Jeannette Sorrell), Folger Consort, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Choir of Trinity Wall Street (Director: Julian Wachner), Ascension Music, Clarion Music Society, Saint Thomas Choir Fifth Avenue, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Seraphic Fire, Ensemble VIII, Bach Collegium San Diego (Director: Ruben Valenzuela), Quicksilver Ensemble, and Acronym. She has also garnered acclaim for her work crossing genres in classical, folk, and contemporary music. She was dubbed "pure radiance" by The Los Angeles Times for her work with Bang on a Can All-Stars in Steel Hammer. She is a festival soloist at the Staunton Music Festival, and appears as a featured soloist at the Carmel Bach Festival. She has performed as a soloist in international venues Shostakovich Hall in St Petersburg, Teatro National de Costa Rica, the Arts Center of NYU Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Vancouver’s Chan Centre, San Cristobal Cathedral in Havana, Cuba and the Carmen Alto Convent in Quito, Ecuador.
Since 2006, Molly Quinn has been a member of the renowned Choir of Trinity Wall Street, performing regularly at services, the Bach at One Cantata Series, concert programs, recordings, and tours. She is a featured soloist on their 2013 GRAMMY® nominated recording of George Frideric Handel’s Israel in Egypt with conductor Julian Wachner on the Musica Omnia label, has appeared with them in London, Moscow, Paris, and Sonoma, and joined soprano colleagues in singing back up for rock legends The Rolling Stones at The Barclays Center.
As a member of New York’s TENET, Molly Quinn has been a long-time collaborator of Artistic Director Jolle Greenleaf. She has been featured in several projects, including the Green Mountain Project, the TENEbrae series and their duo program Uno + One: Italia Nostra, recorded and released this fall by Avie Records to critical acclaim and dubbed as an “Album of the Week” by WQXR. TENET proas well as touring the program to Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and forthcoming appearances in Denmark this summer.
In recent seasons, Molly Quinn has appeared regularly with notable early music ensembles and festivals including Clarion Music Society, The New York Early Music Festival, Antioch Chamber Ensemble, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Ecstatic Music Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival, Quicksilver, and Seraphic Fire. As a proud native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she is drawn to the root music of Appalachia and Ireland and has performed in the cross-over programs Come to the River with Apollo's Fire and The Music of Dublin with The Folger Consort.
Molly Quinn opened her 2013-2014 season as one of four Virginia Best Adams Fellows at the Carmel Bach Festival, highlighting her penchant for 17th and 18th century music in performances of J.S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, G.F. Handel and Purcell. She continued with performances as the soprano soloist in the world premiere completion of W.A. Mozart's Requiem by composer Gregory Spears with Miami’s GRAMMY® nominated Seraphic Fire, G.F. Handel’s Messiah at Alice Tully Hall with Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Wall Street and In Dulci Jubilo, a collaboration between TENET, Bach Collegium San Diego and Dark Horse Consort in the music of Michael Praetorius in both New York and San Diego.
Upcoming performances include Arvo Pärt’s Passio with TENET at Carnegie Hall as part of the collected stories series curated by composer David Lang, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 with Cambridge Concentus and conductor Joshua Rifkin, as well as on tour in the U.S. with Apollo's Fire and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, and a return home to Chapel Hill, North Carolina for both W.A. Mozart's Regina Coeli at the University of North Carolina in the newly restored Memorial Hall and a program of French cantatas for the newly launched HIP [Historically Informed Performance] Festival. Coming up next: January 28 J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D (BWV 243) and Antonio Vivaldi's Introduction and Gloria with Voices of Ascension. |
