Quince Ensemble

Quince Ensemble is a treble voice quartet dedicated to changing the paradigm for contemporary vocal chamber music. Comprised of vocalists Liz Pearse (soprano), Kayleigh Butcher (mezzo-soprano), Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (soprano), and Carrie Henneman Shaw (soprano), Quince thrives on unique musical challenges and genre-bending contemporary repertoire. 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 been featured on many festivals and series, including the KODY Festival in Lublin, Poland in collaboration with David Lang and Beth Morrison Projects, the Outpost in the Burbs concert series, the “Philip Glass: Music with Friends” concert at the Issue Project Room, and the SONiC Festival in New York, among others. Quince has released four studio albums, Realign the Time, Hushers, Motherland, and David Lang's love fail, all available on iTunes, CD Baby, Spotify, Bandcamp, and Amazon.