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Raindrop New Music

Composer collective/sheet music store featuring vocal music & beyond by gender diverse PNW composers

Raindrop New Music was founded by (and is currently run by) collaborators Drew Swatosh, Lisa Neher, and Carolyn Quick.

08/31/2025

Happy Wedding Day to our lovely co-founder, ! 💜

We (Drew & Lisa) are so happy for you and to take this next step in your lives!

It has been wonderful to watch your relationship flourish over the past few years and we wish you a lifetime of happiness!

📸:

07/29/2025

Happy Birthday to our lovely co-founder Lisa Neher (sher/her)! 🥳

We - Drew (they/them) and Carolyn (she/her) love how you continually lift up others around you. You are an amazing friend and colleague, and we appreciate the deep community of support we have fostered with each other through . Congratulations on the 1st anniversary of ! It is amazing to see the impact that telling relevant stories through the beautiful operas and art songs by living composers has had on the audiences you’ve reached so far.

We love you and hope you have a fabulous day, and look forward to your future artistic endeavors and the next chapter of Raindrop New Music!

Photo credit: Antonia Rose Photo

06/21/2025

Tomorrow! Join for a concert and artist talk balk including music of Raindrop cofounder !

06/11/2025

This weekend, Seattle Opera premieres Carolyn Quick's new opera with librettist Raya Tuffaha: The Meeting House!

Fifteen years after the Salem Witch Trials, Temperance returns to the meeting house to grieve the loss of her childhood best friend. Upon entering, she's surprised to find her twelve-year-old self sitting in the pews, illuminated by moonlight. The confession begins.

Catch Carolyn's opera and three additional new works at performances of Seattle Opera's Creation Lab!
June 12 (7:30 pm) and June 13 (2:00 pm) at Tagney Jones Hall in Seattle!

04/28/2025

Happy Birthday to our co-founder Drew Swatosh, Composer & Vocalist!

We (Lisa & Carolyn) love Drew's warm heart and vulnerability, their enthusiastic support for their friends, and their playful, creative spirit. Happy Birthday, Drew!

Photo credit: Antonia Rose Photography

04/06/2025

Happy Birthday to our co-founder, Carolyn Quick! 🥳 We (Drew and Lisa) love the supportive community we have built together as Raindrop New Music. Your feistiness and passion continue to shine through in compositional voice, letting others inside the amazing human that we have the privilege of knowing. In this past year, we’ve watched you step outside your comfort zone and work on projects that will bring the beautiful music you compose to a broader audience. We love you and hope you have a fabulous day, and look forward to your future artistic endeavors!

📸: Antonia Rose Photo

03/14/2025

OUT NOW! Lindsey Rae Johnson and Sequoia Sounds performing Drew Swatosh's A Poem of Gratitude (text by Caroline Erdmann) performed during our November 2023 Recital Series (link in bio)!

02/14/2025

Tomorrow evening at 7pm catch co-founder Lisa Neher and friend of Raindrop New Music pianist and composer Dianne Davies for an intimate house concert called Cycles of Life. Cycles of Life is an ongoing concert project presenting music Lisa and Dianne have written about their experiences as women including friendship, loss, love, and hope. The program features new works setting Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen's poetry, duets with special guest Lindsey Rae Johnson, soprano, and the world premiere of Dianne's operatic duet inspired by period novelist Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South.

Reservations are encouraged to save your seats; suggested donation of $20 per person at the door (pay what you will - no one will be turned away!). To reserve seats and receive the address for this house concert, fill out the contact form at the link in our bio!

02/11/2025

Thank you Daryl Browne for reviewing ’s Scenes from Adolescence which featured music from all 3 Raindrop New Music co-founders:

🌧️Pieces for Soprano, Flute, and Piano by

🌧️Saudade for Solo Piano by

🌧️ she conjures for mezzo-soprano, alto flute, and piano, with optional bodhrán or other simple skin drum by &

To read Daryl’s review and purchase the score for any of our pieces, check out the link in our bio!

01/08/2025

🐾 This Saturday! presents O-Paw-ra Night at where they will perform a program including a set of animal-themed contemporary music, a preview of their upcoming double bill, Wag and Whiskers, and music by Raindrop New Music composers!

🐾 Resident soprano performs multiple works by including selections from the Dead Fires Anthology: Vulnerability, Stillness, and There is Frost (poetry by ), and their art song A Poem of Gratitude (poetry by .erdmann).

🐾Resident mezzo-soprano and composer performs her works How Doth the Little Crocodile (poetry by Lewis Carroll) and Haven (poetry by Paulann Peterson) with special guest .

🐾 Additional performers include soprano Henriët Fourie, pianist Susan McDaniel, and special guest composer-pianist will complete the evening with a performance of her original work, My Father’s Voice.

No registration required. $10 cover at the door in support of the artists. Visit the link in our bio for more info!

01/03/2025

This Saturday, Portland Phoenix Chamber Choir will give the North American premiere of Carolyn Quick's O Fire, which won a special prize for the best performance of a contemporary work at the 28th International Preveza Choral Competition!

More details in the link in our bio

01/02/2025

As we settle into the new year, let's shine a spotlight one more time on what's been inspiring us lately at Raindrop New Music 💡

☔ Last but not least? Co-founder Lisa Neher! ☔

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