Quince New Music

Quince Ensemble is a treble voice ensemble dedicated to advancing contemporary vocal chamber music. Described as "the Anonymous 4 of new music" by Opera News, Quince performs almost exclusively the music of living composers, and actively commissioning works with a broad and curious aesthetic ear with musical boldness and virtuosity.

As dedicated advocates of new music, Quince regularly commissions new works for voices, providing wider exposure for the music of living composers. In 2019, they launched the Quince New Music Commissioning Fund, a fund to grow the repertoire for women and treble voices. Through educational activities, Quince works to bring this music to a larger community of singers and listeners, offering new and empowering pathways to vocal excellence. Quince has released seven studio albums, Realign the Time, Hushers, Motherland, David Lang's love fail, portrait albums of Asuka Kakitani and Tomás Gueglio, and The Approach by Paul Pinto, all available on streaming services. 

Quince has been featured on many festivals and series like KODY Festival in Lublin, Poland in collaboration with David Lang and Beth Morrison Projects, the Outpost Concert Series, the Philip Glass: Music with Friends concert at Issue Project Room, University of Michigan’s Hill Auditorium, and the SONiC Festival in New York, to name a few.  

Comprised of primary vocalists Liz Pearse (soprano), Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (soprano), and Carrie Henneman Shaw (soprano), and a roster of fabulous guest artists, Quince thrives on unique musical challenges and genre-bending contemporary repertoire.