Raindrop New Music
Raindrop New Music is a grassroots composer collective and sheet music store focused on the distribution of vocal music and beyond by Pacific Northwest Composers of gender diverse backgrounds.
What's New?
Looking to fill a few gaps in an upcoming concert? Check out these solo and chamber music finds from our Raindrop New Music Catalog.
Upcoming
Fall 2026 - Dead Fires Anthology Album
"[To be recorded in July], the Dead Fires Anthology is a zine comprised of solo unaccompanied/self-accompanied works for voice composed during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic [by Drew Swatosh (they/them)]. Each piece was composed for a specific singer. [Drew chose] to name this zine after [their] setting of Jesse Redmon Fauset’s Dead Fires because of the depth of both that collaboration and how many of us had a fire in our belly at the beginning of 2020 that turned to embers, much like dead fires. There [are] 8 songs in total, which include texts by [Drew Swatosh], Carolyn Quick, and Jesse Redmon Fauset."
Dead Fires Anthology
Press
Oregon Artswatch - Sitting in a moment: introducing Raindrop New Music
"Raindrop New Music began upon the suggestion of Swatosh, as a means for them to collectively support each other’s work...it seems as if all three were destined to work together. They share an interest in communal music-making and the shared experience of live music."
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Oregon Artswatch - The Oregon School of Composition: A snapshot, circa early 2025
"...the next installment of Fear No Music’s all-Oregon “Locally Sourced Sounds” season. This one’s titled “Scenes from Adolescence,”...filled out by a trio of Oregon composers collectively calling themselves “Raindrop New Music.”"
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The Oregonian - Portland's 12 can't-miss classical music concerts this winter showcase collaboration, local composers
"The program also includes music by... a trio of emerging younger local voices [Raindrop New Music]: Lisa Neher, Carolyn Quick, and Drew Swatosh."
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Oregon Artswatch - This vibrant ecosystem of creativity here: Talking with Kenji Bunch about Fear No Music's all-Oregon season
"...on that concert with David Schiff's work, I'm positioning new work by the new Composer Collective, Raindrop New Music, and I think it's nice to combine those two things on the same stage, and say, here's something, a classic work by someone we all know and love and respect and here's new work by this emerging, exciting new group, let's check that out."
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Oregon Artswatch - MusicWatch Monthly: The eternal hourglass of existence, from Abronia to New Wave Opera to Takács Quartet
"Each night’s run also has a guest slot, ‘round about 7:30. On the 21st it’s a performance of yet another Poe-inspired work, this one by Carolyn Quick (yet another Oregon composer, yet another Neher collaborator – she’s in Raindrop New Music with Neher and Drew Swatosh, and you’ll hear from the three of them when Fear No Music plays their music next January)."
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Meet Our Co-Founders
Get to know the composer-performers who founded raindrop new music and see their score catalogues.
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Meet our Members
Get to know the composer-performers in Raindrop New Music and see their score catalogues.
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