uinn was born in a small seaside town in Maine to a music-making carny family of many generations. His mother, a church organist, and his dad, a rock guitarist exposed him to a wide spectrum of musical influences, which lead him to play drums and write music before his third birthday. His Summers were spent passing out prizes to skee ball winners in the family penny arcade, as he listened to the popular music of the day on the juke box, and standing in the doorways of local nightclubs

(He was too young to enter), where he was able to soak up different styles of music and peer into the musicians way of life. His love of the carnival-esque atmosphere enticed him to perform for several years as the 'Skeleton' in the longest walk through haunted house in New England, where he scared James Taylor, Alice Cooper and maybe even you.

Split by the desire to be the next Walt Disney or to become a profession musician, he made the decision to attend the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he received a Bachelors Degree in Jazz Performance. After graduation he moved to Los Angeles, where he entered into his first record deal. His Debut cd Quinn was played on radio stations everywhere, featured in films and even promoted on a billboard on the famous Sunset Strip. After venturing further into the music business, he began to consider leaving it all behind to become a monk, but after immersing himself in numerous spiritual books and embracing the need to compose and perform, he decided to combine the two by starting his own entertainment company called Orison Music, which primarily focuses on works of hope, love and introspection. Orison means 'Prayer' in Latin, and when combined with the 'M' in Music they form the spiritual and mystical syllable 'om', bringing both the Eastern and Western Worlds together. This hybrid of cultures is what has infused Quinn's music from the very beginning.

Currently Orison Records is releasing Quinn's tenth cd, The Seduction Serenades and eleventh, Everything Fell Silent, adding to a catalogue that spans the spectrum from Classical to Rock and Gothic to Pop, always with a twist of the theatrical. Aside from his solo career he is also a very in demand studio musician and composer, touring the world with many renowned artists. His music can be heard on television programs from Oprah to the Olympics and he has appeared on numerous shows including Kcrw, Echoes, Sirius, XM, Radio One, The Today Show, The Tonight Show and The Late Show.

He has already begun writing and recording his twelfth cd and whether he's playing drums, piano, pump organ, componium, marxophone or some inspired instrument he's just built, it's a given that it's creative spark will have come from his long encoded carnival and spiritual dna.



Discography:

• Quinn - 1994 (In A Perfect World featured in the short film Father, winner at the Damah Film Festival and the Saboath Int'l Film Festival in Milan for Best Short. Sacred Revelation, The Crown of Life and Autonomous featured in and on the soundtrack to the movie Silent Trigger - 1996)
• Ecstasy in Avila - 1996 (Ecstasy in Avila featured on the compilation cds Elevation II, Respirar II and Tribal Dreaming - 1996)
• The Solemn Vow - 1998 (Modern World Opera Ballet)
• Chasing Silence - 2000 (Acedia - The Noonday Demon featured on the soundtrack to the Academy Award winning film Crash called Crash music from and inspired by the film - 2005)
• Beneath the Quiet - 2003 ('Best of 2003' list at Backroads Music and The Winds of Evenfall included on the television show The Black Donnellys)
• Ensoul - 2004 (Stand By The River With Me featured in the movie Americanese, The Great Unfolding featured on the television show Friday Night Lights and A Simple Kind Of Life featured on the compilation cd Luna)
• Becoming - 2007 (Recorded and Mixed in Hamburg, Germany, St. Petersburg, Russia, Lyon, France, Maine and Capitol Recording Studios (The famous and histroicalRoom A), Hollywood, California)
• secrets from the whisper dome - 2007 (Soundtrack to and imaginary movie)
Midway to Midnight - 2008
(In rotation on the radio program, Echoes)
The Seduction Serenades - 2010
• Everything Fell Silent - 2010

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