Praised for her “fine, warm mezzo-soprano voice," Quinn Middleman is known as an "animated musical storyteller." She looks forward to originating the role of Eldest Daughter in Aaron Israel Levin’s new opera, Trusted, with Chicago Opera Theater, and appearing with the EarTaxi Festival as well as Music of the Baroque. Her 2024-25 engagements included returns to Annapolis  Opera as Berta/Il barbiere di Siviglia and Haymarket Opera as Mary Cleofe/Resurrezione, and a debut with Opera Montana in her signature role as The Witch/The Mother/Hansel and Gretel. She also premiered Rosśa Crean’s Westifaria with the PICOSA Ensemble and solo in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Cleveland Suburban Symphony Orchestra. 

In the 2023-24 season, she appeared as Nunzia/La liberazione di Ruggiero with Haymarket Opera, Third Lady/Die Zauberflöte with Annapolis Opera, Ježibaba/Rusalka with Opera Ithaca, several roles in L'enfant et les sortilèges with Salt Marsh Opera, and Podtochina/ Countess/The Nose with Chicago Opera Theater. She was proud to win 1st Place in the Opera Mississippi John Alexander National Vocal Competition. In the 2022-23 season, she sang the Page/Salome (covering Herodias) at Madison Opera and the Witch/Hansel and Gretel with Opera Birmingham, covered Handel’s titular Ariodante at Pittsburgh Opera, and joined The Santa Fe Opera as a member of the 2023 Apprentice Singers Program, covering Geneviève/Pelléas et Mélisande and Ninfa/Orfeo. 

Quinn has recently appeared as Alto Soloist/Messiah with Utah Symphony, Alto Soloist/Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Alisa/Lucia di Lammermoor with Madison Opera, Doris/Elizabeth Cree with Chicago Opera Theater, Mother/Amahl and the Night Visitors with Opéra Louisiane, The Mother/The Scarlet Ibis with Chicago Opera Theater, Testo/La Susanna with Haymarket Opera, Countess (cover)/Queen of Spades at Des Moines Metro Opera, Filippyevna/Eugene Onegin with Music Academy of the West, and Ježibaba/The Littlest Mermaid with OPERA Iowa. In competition, Quinn placed first in the Opera Birmingham Competition, won the Mozart Prize at the Orpheus Vocal Competition, and was a finalist in the Argento Vocal Competition. She was a LYNX Project Artist in Residence and a Utah Opera Resident Artist, with whom she appeared as Flora/La Traviata and Madeleine/Silent Night and covered Rosina/Il barbiere di Siviglia. She has also performed with Crested Butte Music Festival, Chautauqua Opera, Central City Opera, St. Petersburg Opera, and Tanglewood Music Center, among others. She holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University, and received bachelor’s degrees in both Oboe Performance and Vocal Arts from the University of Southern California.