Seraphic Fire Magazine, Vol 1, Iss 1

2019 - 2020 S E A S O N | Volume I, Issue I

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CONTENTS About Seraphic Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 About Patrick Dupré Quigley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Season at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-12 November Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-14 Enlightenment Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-19 Education Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-21 Pre-Concert Conversation Schedule . . . . . . 22 December Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-24 January Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25-26 Guest Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Looking Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-30 Support Seraphic Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-33 Hosts & Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Welcome to Seraphic Fire’s 18th season of making the world’s most beautiful choral music.

I am sure you share my gratitude for all they do to raise the quality of professional choral singing in North America while also leading the field in educating, training, and mentoring the next generation of great singers, composers, and conductors. Seraphic Fire’s profound impact on choral music is a testament to the talent and dedication of our artists, staff, and supporters and I could not be more proud to be a part of this amazing organization.

Please join me in assuring that this incredible music is available to future generations.

Thomas C. Boyd 3 Thomas | SEASON EIGHTEEN C. Boyd, Chair

A L E T T E R F R O M O U R F O U N DE R Seraphic Fire is a handcrafted concert experience – not available in New York or Chicago or San Francisco, but here in South Florida. We are a bespoke organization, made for and with a particular listener. Only with your passion for our art and undying friendship is our experience complete.

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PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY

Seraphic Fire brings together professional vocal and instrumental artists from around the country to perform repertoire ranging from medieval chant and Baroque masterpieces to commissions by leading living composers. The Seraphic Fire media catalog contains 16 releases. In 2012, two of the ensemble’s recordings, Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem and A Seraphic Fire Christmas, were nominated for GRAMMY® Awards.

Seraphic Fire’s artistic accomplishments also have translated to partnerships with The Cleveland Orchestra and New World Symphony, among others. At the forefront of Seraphic Fire’s mission is a commitment to community well-being and musician advancement through educational programs for South Florida’s underserved elementary students, as well as rising music professionals at University of Miami, Florida International University, UCLA, and the Aspen Music Festival and School.

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Patrick Dupré Quigley is the Founder and Artistic Director of Seraphic Fire. He has guest conducted San Francisco Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, and New World Symphony, among others. This season, Quigley debuts with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and New Jersey Symphony.

In his 17 years as Artistic Director, Seraphic Fire has grown to present an annual, multi-venue subscription concert series.

Seraphic Fire’s multiple educational outreach programs – including the Seraphic Fire Youth Initiative, Seraphic FireUCLA Ensemble Artist Program, and the Professional Choral Institute at the Aspen Music Festival – reach thousands of students, from elementary to graduate school.

Quigley holds a master’s degree from the Yale School of Music, an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, and has pursued further professional studies at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy’s Fundraising School.

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2019-2020 SEASON AT A GLANCE

PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR A celebration of music of some of this world’s greatest minds, Seraphic Fire’s Enlightenment Festival focuses on the music that Handel, Haydn, and Bach wrote with an emphasis on Classicism and dramatic works.

Haydn: Arianna a Naxos Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Bach: Coffee and Wedding Cantatas Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Boca Raton Bach: Cello Suites Miami | Ft. Lauderdale Handel: Acis and Galatea Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Naples

November 6-10, 2019

PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR Hildegard of Bingen is universally revered as one of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages. The women of Seraphic Fire bring her nearly millennium-old masterpiece Ordo Virtutum back to life.

Miami | Boca Raton | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach

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March 11-15, 2020

RAGNAR BOHLIN, GUEST CONDUCTOR Ragnar Bohlin, director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, conducts an evening of choral music from Scandinavia, featuring fresh harmonies, pulsing rhythms, and fantastical choral effects.

Miami | Naples | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach

Invitation to a post-concert talk-back with Patrick Dupré Quigley Invitation to a “town hall” conference call with Patrick Dupré Quigley and the artists of Seraphic Fire Autographed Seraphic Fire CD signed by Patrick Dupré Quigley

December 7-22, 2019

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Live CD recording of Seraphic Fire with American Brass Quintet, November 2018

JAMES K. BASS, GUEST CONDUCTOR The incomparable voices of Seraphic Fire resound in carols, ancient and modern, in this new Christmas program, featuring Gregorian chant, Renaissance motets, English carols and the traditional singing of Silent Night and others.

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April 15-19, 2020

PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR For the first time since 2004, Seraphic Fire and Patrick Dupré Quigley perform Handel’s complete Messiah in concerts to benefit Seraphic Fire’s education and musician advancement programs.

Boca Raton | Naples | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Cutler Bay

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February 12-23, 2020

January 15-19, 2020

ELENA SHARKOVA, GUEST CONDUCTOR Russia’s choral tradition comes to life under the baton of acclaimed conductor Elena Sharkova. In her return to Seraphic Fire, Sharkova conducts a program of exceeding beauty that is so characteristic of Russian choral music.

Miami | Naples | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach

May 5-10, 2020

JAMES K. BASS, GUEST CONDUCTOR Franz Biebl wrote his iconic Ave Maria for an all-male Bavarian Firemen’s Chorus in the summer of 1959. Seraphic Fire performs the Biebl and explores the tradition of music for men’s choirs that inspired this singular work.

Boca Raton | Miami | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach

2019-2020 ARTIST ROSTER “...a taut, mellifluous force.”

– Cleveland Plain Dealer

SOPRANO CAIT FRIZZELL City: New York, NY Seasons with SF: 3 Artistic Highlights: Debut solo recital at Weil Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, featured soloist alongside Dawn Upshaw and Stephanie Blythe for Phyllis Curtin’s memorial recital at the Tanglewood Festival, Barbara Bonney Lieder Prize Winner (AIMS Festival) SARA GUTTENBERG CHORUS MASTER City: Byron, IL Seasons with SF: 12 Artistic Highlights: Oregon Bach Festival, Mozart’s Requiem with Aspen Music Festival and School, GRAMMY® winner

ARTIST HIGHLIGHT AMANDA CRIDER, ALTO Base City: Miami, FL Seasons with SF: 8

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Mezzo Soprano, Amanda Crider has sung with companies across the US including Los Angeles Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Dallas Opera, New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera and Florentine Opera. She has appeared as a soloist with ensembles including Apollo’s Fire, Seraphic Fire, New World Symphony and the International Contemporary Ensemble. A prize winner in the José Iturbi International, Jensen Foundation, Palm Beach Opera, Oratorio Society of New York, and Center for Contemporary Opera vocal competitions, Amanda is also a recipient of a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation and the Artistic Director of IlluminArts.

SARAH MOYER City: Boston, MA Seasons with SF: 5 Artistic Highlights: Handel’s Messiah with Variant 6 + Bourbon Baroque, soloist on the GRAMMY® nominated Skylark CD Seven Words from the Cross, performing with the Rolling Stones

NOLA RICHARDSON City: New York, NY Seasons with SF: 2 Artistic Highlights: Opera Lafayette, Radamisto at the Kennedy Center, Grand Rapids Symphony, First Prize winner of the Linn Maxwell Keller Bach Competition, Bach Cantatas at Alice Tully Hall, Arvo Pärt’s Passio, with Yale Schola Cantorum

KATHRYN MUELLER City: Raleigh, NC Seasons with SF: 11 Artistic Highlights: Singing Monteverdi’s Vespers with Seraphic Fire in Mexico City’s cathedral and Palacio de Bellas Artes, soloist for Mozart’s Vespers in Carnegie Hall, Messiah as a soloist with Portland Baroque Orchestra under Monica Huggett, commission project and 3-week concert tour of Indonesia with the Swara Sonora Trio

MARGOT ROOD City: Alexandria, VA Seasons with SF: 9 Artistic Highlights: Recording “La Paix” in Charpentier’s Les Arts Florissants with BEMF in Germany, singing Stravinsky’s Threni with The Cleveland Orchestra, self-producing my debut solo album of art song by Heather Gilligan, performing Polly Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera with Emmanuel Music

MOLLY NETTER City: New York, NY Seasons with SF: 3 Artistic Highlights: Soloist in the US and Japanese premieres of David Lang’s Prayers for Night and Sleep, roles in “Versailles” program and la Carnaval de Venise at the 2017 BEMF festival, featured on the recording of Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles & Les Arts Florissants (2019) as “la Poesie.” Role of “Joan of Arc” in Amy Beth Kirsten’s Savior with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street

REBECCA MYERS City: Philadelphia, PA Seasons with SF: 4 Artistic Highlights: Performing the world premiere of Aniara with The Crossing in Philadelphia, Amsterdam, and Helsinki, commissioning, producing and performing in Moonlite, a piece by Wally Gunn with Variant 6, singing in a twelve voice Messiah with Variant 6 and Bourbon Baroque, performing in the world premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Fire in My Mouth with the New York Philharmonic

MOLLY QUINN City: Chapel Hill, NC Seasons with SF: 8 Artistic Highlights: Soloist in historic Shostakovich Hall in St Petersburg, Russia, singing backup for The Rolling Stones

BRENNA WELLS City: Seattle, WA Seasons with SF: 5 Artistic Highlights: Soloist with the Aspen Festival Orchestra, soloist at the Aldeburgh Festival in England, soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston

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STEFANIE MOORE City: Los Angeles, CA Seasons with SF: 3 Artistic Highlights: Soloist in Service Music and Post-Service Concert at the Interment of the Ashes of Matthew Shepard, singing Selections from Considering Matthew Shepard by Craig Hella Johnson, Soprano Soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, singing Vivaldi’s In furore with Bach Collegium San Diego 2018 JANE LONG City: Seattle, WA Seasons with SF: 1 Artistic Highlights: Buxtehude’s Jesu Membra Nostri with Alexander Weimann, collaborative and innovative performances with Arkora Music Collective, Dido in Dido and Aenaes, Purcell Tour of Vivaldi’s Magnificat and Gloria with an all-women ensemble led by Monica Huggett

CHELSEA HELM City: New York, NY Seasons with SF: 2 Artistic Highlights: St. Matthew Passion with the Charlotte Bach Festival, under the direction of Scott Allen Jarrett, “Bach Plus,” a program of Bach Motets and compositions by Ted Hearne with Conspirare, singing the role of Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale with the Janiec Opera Company, recording a Downbeat-award-winning album of original arrangements with vocal jazz quartet Four Corners ARWEN MYERS City: Portland, OR Seasons with SF: 1 Artistic Highlights: Handel with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Bach & Purcell with Portland Baroque Orchestra, Vivaldi, Monteverdi & Gabrieli with Early Music Vancouver, Singing Handel & Bach with Oregon Bach Festival

ALTO LUTHIEN BRACKETT City: London, UK Seasons with SF: 6 Artistic Highlights: Performing with The Monteverdi Choir at the BBC Proms, Performing the Russian premiere of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week with the Clarion Choir at the Grand Hall Philharmonic in St. Petersburg, solo début at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in Handel’s Messiah with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, winning first place in the 2008 Tolosa International Choral Competition with my group, Antioch

DOUGLAS DODSON City: Boston, MA Seasons with SF: 6 Artistic Highlights: Messiah with Charlotte Symphony and South Dakota Symphony, roles with Boston Baroque and Chicago Opera Theater, international debut with Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, 3-day Jeopardy! champion MARGARET LIAS City: Boston, MA Seasons with SF: 6 Artistic Highlights: Solo debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2017, performing John Harbison’s The Supper at Emmaus with John conducting in 2019, participating in the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Kuhmo, Finland in 2015 and 2016 EMILY MARVOSH City: Boston, MA Seasons with SF: 13 Artistic Highlights: Messiah soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society, European solo debut with the Chorus of Westerly, David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion, St. John Passion in Stuttgart with Helmuth Rilling

CLARA OSOWSKI City: Minneapolis, MN Seasons with SF: 4 Artistic Highlights: McKnight Fellowship, Prize Winner at Das Lied, Wigmore Hall, & CMIM Song Competitions, Metropolitan Opera Regional Finalist

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ANDREW RADER City: Indianapolis, IN Seasons with SF: 1 Artistic Highlights: Italian trecento recording with Liber, The Gospel According to the Other Mary with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seven Days of Creation recital ELISA SUTHERLAND City: Brooklyn, NY Seasons with SF: 3 Artistic Highlights: Performing Julia Wolfe’s Fire In My Mouth with The Crossing and the New York Philharmonic, performing a 12-voice Handel’s Messiah with my ensemble, Variant 6 & Bourbon Baroque, premiering Moonlite, a new oratorio by Wally Gunn with Variant 6 and Mobius Percussion VIRGINIA WARNKEN City: Branford, CT Seasons with SF: 8 Artistic Highlights: 2014 GRAMMY® Award for Best Chamber Album, featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic, performances with Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony KIMBERLY LEEDS City: Boston, MA Seasons with SF: 1 Artistic Highlights: Winning the 2016 Tafelmusik Vocal Competition, working with Philip Herreweghe as a Britten Pears Young Artist, performing Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my Mouth with the Crossing in collaboration with the NY Philharmonic, and attending the Carmel Bach Festival as a Virginia Best Adams Fellow

KATE MARONEY City: Brooklyn, NY Seasons with SF: 2 Artistic Highlights: World Tour of Einstein on the Beach, Missy Mazzoli’s Song From the Opera at Los Angeles Opera, Carmel Bach Festival Adams Fellow, tour of Ireland with Gare Saint Lazare Ireland in an all-Beckett pastiche with music by Paul Clark

TENOR STEVEN BRADSHAW City: Philadelphia, PA Seasons with SF: 5 Artistic Highlights: Premier of Ted Hearne’s PLACE at BAM, 300 performances of Lifespan by David Lang, GRAMMY® win for Bryars’ The 5th Century ANDREW CRANE City: American Fork, UT Seasons with SF: 3 Artistic Highlights: Conducted Brigham Young University Singers at the national conference of ACDA, conducted world premiere performance of composer Ivo Antognini’s major choral/orchestral work A Prayer for Mother Earth at Carnegie Hall, Tenor solos in Mozart’s Requiem with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale alongside mezzosoprano soloist Susan Graham, performed with Seraphic Fire as part of the inaugural Professional Choral Institute at the Aspen Music Festival PATRICK MUEHLEISE City: New York, NY Seasons with SF: 10 Artistic Highlights: Monteverdi’s Vespers with Jane Glover, Reich’s Desert Music with New World Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem at Aspen Music Festival

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PAUL JOHN RUDOI City: Minneapolis, MN Seasons with SF: 3 Artistic Highlights: Singing Bach and Bruckner alongside the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst, Composerin-Residence and Tenor Vocalist for the Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s 2019 Summer Season, Cantus premiere of Nico Muhly’s Luminous Body with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra STEVE SOPH City: Philadelphia, PA Seasons with SF: 9 Artistic Highlights: Stravinsky’s Threni with The Cleveland Orchestra, Bach, Handel, and Purcell with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with The Cleveland Orchestra,Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Charlotte Bach Festival BRAD DIAMOND City: Birmingham, AL Seasons with SF: 8 Artistic Highlights: Solo vocalist under Leonard Bernstein, private performance for Prince Charles of Wales, performances of Schubert song cycles NICK KARAGEORGIOU City: New York, NY Seasons with SF: 1 Artistic Highlights: LA Opera/Prototype Festival/Trinity Wall Street collaboration of Ellen Reid’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, p r i s m, International Tour to South Korea and China with Cantus, tenor Soloist of Bach’s BWV 5 under Julian Wachner at Trinity Wall Street, member of Seraphic Fire concerts in Sun Valley, ID, performing Perotin’s Sederunt

BASS ERIC ALATORRE City: San Francisco, CA Seasons with SF: 1 Artistic Highlights: GRAMMY® Award 1993, 2000, 2003, ensemble of the year 2008, Classical Music Hall of Fame 2009 STEVEN EDDY City: New York, NY Seasons with SF: 4 Artistic Highlights: New York Philharmonic debut, June 2019, 1st prize winner of the Oratorio Society of New York Competition, Concerts with Seraphic Fire, Philharmonic Baroque, True Concord Voices & Orchestra, and American Classical Orchestra CHARLES WESLEY EVANS City: Iowa City, IA Seasons with SF: 9 Artistic Highlights: Finalist at Mobile Opera Auditions, Finalistin the Orpheus National Vocal Competition ENRICO LAGASCA City: New York, NY Seasons with SF: 3 Artistic Highlights: Season performances include Conspirare and Seraphic Fire, the New York Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Appearances in the Salzburg Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival and Bard Summerscape Festival THOMAS MCCARGAR City: New York, NY Seasons with SF: 11 Artistic Highlights: Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Roomful of Teeth, solos at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center

JAMES K. BASS ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR City: Los Angeles, CA Seasons with SF: 17 Artistic Highlights: Director of Choral Studies at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA, Artistic Director of the Long Beach Camerata Singers CAMERON BEAUCHAMP City: San Antonio, TX Seasons with SF: 11 Artistic Highlights: Performed on three GRAMMY® Award-winning albums, ten GRAMMY® - nominated albums, and one Downbeat Award-winning album MICHAEL HAWES City: Chicago, IL Seasons with SF: 2 Artistic Highlights: Clarion Choir, MET Gala, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, Verdi Requiem DAVID RUGGER City: Indianapolis, IN Seasons with SF: 1 Artistic Highlights: Performing with Bach Society of St. Louis, Bach Akademie Charlotte, Mountainside Baroque, Bach Society of Dayton

ARTIST HIGHLIGHT

JOHN BUFFETT, BASS

Base City: Los Angeles, CA Seasons with SF: 8 Baritone John Buffett enjoys a versatile career and has sung with the Symphonies of Utah, San Antonio, and Winston-Salem, The Mark Morris Dance Group, The Los Angeles and Rochester Philharmonics, The Cleveland Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, Ars Lyrica, Bach Collegium San Diego, The Charlotte and Oregon Bach Festivals, The Tanglewood, Aspen, Mostly Mozart and Boston Early Music Festivals, Seraphic Fire, The Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Mr. Buffett, currently on faculty at CSU Long Beach, received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music

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PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

ORDO VIRTUTUM Prologue Part I: The Soul invokes the Virtues Part II: Enter the Devil Part III: The Soul Returns Part IV: Struggle between Virtues and the Devil Processional LUTHIEN BRACKETT Anima (The Soul)

INSTRUMENTALISTS CHLOE FEDOR, VIOLIN KATIE HYUN, VIOLIN EDSON SCHEID, VIOLIN ISABELLE SEULA LEE, VIOLIN STEPHEN GOIST, VIOLA KYLE MILLER, VIOLA GUY FISHMAN, CELLO SARAH STONE, CELLO NATHANIEL CHASE, BASS GEOFFREY BURGESS, OBOE/RECORDER

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MEG OWENS, OBOE/RECORDER JOE MONTICELLO, FLUTE JUSTIN BLACKWELL, ORGAN JOHN LENTI, LUTE MARY BOWDEN, TRUMPET JOSH COHEN, TRUMPET RHETT DEL CAMPO, TIMPANI SCOTT ALLEN JARRETT, PIANO LEON SCHELHASE, HARPSICHORD/PIANO

JAMES K. BASS Diabolus (The Devil) SARA GUTTENBERG Percussion DR. HONEY MECONI Advising Scholar

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PERFORMING ARTISTS SOPRANO

Rebecca Myers Sara Guttenberg Nola Richardson Molly Quinn Sarah Moyer Arwen Myers

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Amanda Crider Luthien Brackett Margaret Lias Clara Osowski Kate Maroney Virginia Warnken

ENSEMBLE ARTIST PROGRAM AT UCLA’S HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC

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Elisse Albian Tara Fay Grace Martino Maia Sumanaweera

PIANO MUSIC AT ITS BEST! ROMAN RABINOVICH, Israel Top Prize Rubinstein Int’l Comp., Tel Aviv DECEMBER 10, 2019 - 7:00 PM

ROBERTO PLANO, Italy 1st Prize Cleveland Int’l Piano Comp.

MARCH 2, 2020 - 7:00 PM.

HORACIO LAVANDERA, Argentina 1st Prize Umberto Micheli, Milan MAY 19, 2020 - 7:00 PM

SHAI WOSNER, Israel Avery Fisher Career Grant JANUARY 21, 2020 - 7:00 PM

PAAVALI JUMPPANEN, Finland 1st Prize Young Concert Artists MARCH 30, 2020 - 7:00 PM

DAVID DUBAL, USA (Lecture-Recital) “Beethoven’s Place in the History of Humanity” JANUARY 30, 2020 - 3:00 PM

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Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th!

Musical journey through Beethoven’s life. Artists from the Colburn Music Conservatory (Los Angeles) perform his 32* Piano Sonatas. Pre-concert talks with Mark Travis (Media Director, New York Philharmonic) start at 6:00 PM.

*Piano Sonatas No.27 through No.32 will be performed in 2020-2021 Season.

OCTOBER 22, 2019 - 7:00 PM Sonatas No. 1, 2, 3, 4 “Grand Sonata”

FEBRUARY 11, 2020 - 7:00 PM Sonatas No. 9, 10, 11, 12 “Funeral March”

JUNE 23, 2020 - 7:00 PM Sonatas No. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 “Waldstein”

NOVEMBER 12, 2019 - 7:00 PM Sonatas No. 5, 6, 7, 8 “Pathetique”

APRIL 21, 2020 - 7:00 PM Sonatas No. 13, 14 “Moonlight”, 15

JULY 14, 2020 - 7:00 PM Sonatas No. 22, 23 “Appassionata”, 24, 25, 26

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What will the festival format allow audiences to experience?

The musical concert, by its very nature, only allows the audience and musicians to be in contact with one to three masterpieces in an evening.

For the visually inclined, think of a white room with the Mona Lisa hanging on the far wall with, perhaps, another three works of minor masters on the side walls. This is the incredibly personal world of a concert evening: intimate, up-close interaction with art (music) where a single group of musicians and listeners can focus on a single idea for 75 to 120 minutes. At its best, it is something thrilling, even life changing.

FEBRUARY 12-23 PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR

Seraphic Fire’s Enlightenment Festival focuses on the music that Handel, Haydn, and Bach wrote for public performance with an emphasis on Classicism and dramatic works.

“For our eighteenth season, we want to provide audiences with an opportunity to explore the rich historical and multi-cultural tapestry of choral music,” says Seraphic Fire Artistic Director Patrick Dupré Quigley.”

The new season marks several milestones for Miami’s GRAMMY® nominated vocal ensemble, including the two-week Enlightenment Festival in February 2020 – the organization’s first ever – which will feature combinations of vocal and instrumental music in both chamber and festival settings to include selections from Franz Joseph Haydn’s Arianna

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a Naxos, Bach’s secular cantatas and cello suites, and Handel’s Acis and Galatea, all featuring the members of Seraphic Fire in step-out solo roles.

“The Enlightenment Festival will be a celebration of the music of some of this world’s greatest minds,” offers Quigley. “Concerts will focus on the music that Handel, Haydn and Bach wrote for public performance with an emphasis on Classicism and dramatic works.”

In the following pages, Quigley provides additional reflections on Handel, Haydn and Bach and Seraphic Fire’s two weeks of performances honoring their legacy and musical achievements.

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Music’s greatest philosophers—Bach, Handel, Rameau, Scarlatti, Mozart, Haydn, and even a young Beethoven—were reared in a greater world that highly valued secular human achievements in the arts and sciences. Influenced by the painting, architecture, political discourse, dance, theater, and design of the Enlightenment, the founders of music’s modern epoch were not in a vacuum. They knew the music of their predecessors and their contemporaries. In this frenzy of new thought, it is only natural that music and musicians would be deeply affected.

Seraphic Fire has made a nearly two-decade commitment to the music of the 18th century. The Enlightenment Festival will allow us to annually honor our and our audience’s musical roots and pay homage to some of the most spectacularly talented musicians the world has ever known.

A festival builds upon the strength of the concert experience to allow both audience and performers to focus on the wider concept of these masterpieces. Instead of viewing the Mona Lisa in a stark white gallery, we encounter Da Vinci surrounded by the entire treasures of the Louvre. Great masterpieces, be they music or paintings, are only enhanced by context.

A multi-concert festival gives that context.

What will audiences experience at the 2020 Enlightenment Festival? What can they hope to experience in future years?

Festivals provide breadth and depth to our collective musical experience. In the case of this year’s Enlightenment Festival, we wanted to explore the identity of some of the 18th century’s greatest thinkers: Bach, Haydn, and Handel. When dealing with such remarkable musical treasures, a single concert would be grossly insufficient to allow us, 21st century listeners and practitioners, to truly appreciate all their genius has to offer. The Enlightenment Festival, over four programs and ten performances, allows the Seraphic Fire audience and ensemble to truly be immersed in the music of giants.

Why are you featuring the Enlightenment period in a festival?

Tenets that we hold as indivisible parts of our soul—freedom of thought and speech, secular government, the inherent value of all humans— were introduced as regular parts of discourse during the Enlightenment.

While the Age of Enlightenment remains difficult to definitively pinpoint, most will agree that it roughly follows the arc of the 18th century. Kant, Hume, and Rousseau—these three intellectual giants, who all came of age during the mid-18th century, were only a small part of a European arts and humanities firestorm.

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Each year, the Enlightenment Festival will allow the entire Seraphic Fire community to take one musical aspect of the 18th century and focus on its intricacies, its triumphs and its humanity. This year, to introduce the concept to our listeners and artists, we will be focusing on the music that Bach, Haydn, and Handel wrote for intimate secular performances, whether they be at court, at home, or in the coffeehouse.

Bach contributes three astounding works to this year’s festival. The “Coffee Cantata” was a comedic work to be staged in one of the master’s favorite haunts: Zimmerman’s Coffee House in Leipzig, Germany, while the amorous “Wedding Cantata” is traditionally (though not necessarily accurately) to the date of his marriage to Anna Magdalena Bach in 1721. Finally, Bach’s solo Cello Suites are certainly remarkable for their musical content, but even more so for the high regard in which Bach holds the individual artist-musician.

Haydn’s magnificent secular cantata Arianna a Naxos most likely came as a result of a years-long correspondence with a talented student, Josepha von Genzinger. In Haydn’s letters to Josepha, he asks that she remember her teacher by “singing the cantata frequently,” presumably in private, home performance.

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CALENDAR OF E VENTS Haydn: Arianna a Naxos

Bach: Cello Suites

Wed, Feb 12, 7:00pm | Ft. Lauderdale Sanctuary Church 1400 N Federal Hwy, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304

Tue, Feb 18, 7:30pm | Coral Gables Church of the Little Flower 2711 Indian Mound Trail, Coral Gables, FL 33134

Thu, Feb 13, 7:30pm | Coral Gables Church of the Little Flower 2711 Indian Mound Trail, Coral Gables, FL 33134

Wed, Feb 19, 7:00pm | Ft. Lauderdale Sanctuary Church 1400 N Federal Hwy, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304

Bach: Coffee and Wedding Cantatas

Handel: Acis and Galatea

Fri, Feb 14, 7:30pm | Coral Gables St. Philip’s Episcopal 121 Andalusia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134 Sat, Feb 15, 7:30pm | Ft. Lauderdale All Saints Episcopal 333 Tarpon Dr, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301 Sun, Feb 16, 4:00pm | Boca Raton St. Gregory’s Episcopal 100 NE Mizner Blvd, Boca Raton, FL 33432

Fri, Feb 21, 7:30pm | Coral Gables (FUM) First United Methodist 536 Coral Way, Coral Gables, FL 33134 Sat, Feb 22, 7:30pm | Ft. Lauderdale All Saints Episcopal 333 Tarpon Dr, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301 Sun, Feb 23, 4:00pm | Naples Vanderbilt Presbyterian 1225 Piper Blvd, Naples, FL 34110

Finally, if Da Vinci was a “Renaissance” man, then Handel is most certainly an “Enlightenment” man. That a court-level musician could support himself almost entirely through secular musical entrepreneurship would have been almost unthinkable even just 100 years prior. Handel, when he moved to London following the Hanovers, began his steady transition from kapellmeister to producer, inventing entire musical forms along the way. The delightfully tuneful Acis and Galatea was composed for a performance at Cannons, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Chandos. Its Classical story and “pastoral” score make it one of the shining examples of an Enlightenment musical style.

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Regardless of training, every musician has a period or a composer or a style that speaks to them in a profound, almost spiritual way. My personal experience with the music of the Enlightenment, bookended by Bach and Haydn, has been deeply

The Enlightenment Festival will be held on February 12-23 with performances in Boca Raton, Coral Gables, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami and Naples. Please refer to the festival calendar in Seraphic Fire Magazine for additional details on programs, dates, venues and tickets.

2019-2020 Season

Partial funding provided by:

The Art of Extraordinary Music-Making

Trent R. Brown, Artistic Director Abigail Allison, Accompanist

www.SymphonicChorale.org or call 239-560-5695

The

Mozart Coronation Mass & Bruckner Te Deum Sun. Nov. 17 ~ 4 PM Faith Presbyterian Church 4544 Coronado Pkwy Cape Coral part of the Faith Concert Series ~ $20

Featuring John Rutter’s Requiem & other British composers Sun. Mar 29 ~ 4 PM Moorings Presbyterian Church 791 Harbour Dr. Naples

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What does producing a festival mean to Seraphic Fire?

Work. Lots of work.

What does the music of the Enlightenment mean to Patrick Dupré Quigley?

Before the Morning Watch ~ A Memorial Concert

For more information on the Enlightenment Festival, visit www.seraphicfire.org/experience or call 305.285.9060

satisfying on every level. As a performer, the music of the Enlightenment requires so much, both physically and mentally. The exactness of notation, the rise of the virtuoso, the growing length of musical works: all of these combine to create a body of work which engages the human performer on so many levels. As a listener, I never have run out of pieces to discover. The sheer output of composers during the Enlightenment makes every encounter a discovery.

part of the Hyacinth Concert Series ~ FREE

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FUSION SingOut! SWFL Choral Festival

Foundation

Welcomes ALL Singers

Faith Presbyterian Church 4544 Coronado Pkwy Cape Coral

Timothy Takach, Clinician

Fri. Feb 21 & Sat Feb 22 ~ Festival Workshop Sat. Feb 22 ~ 7:30 PM Festival Concert ~ FREE

Beethoven’s 9th

A Collaboration with Naples Phil Orchestra & Chorus

Thu, Fri, Sat, May 7-9 ~ 8 PM Artis-Naples 5833 Pelican Bay Blvd Naples tickets available through the Artis-Naples Box Office

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The Symphonic Chorale is an independent 501 (c)3 non-profit corporation.

PO Box 07105, Ft. Myers, FL 33919

The Claiborne & Ned Foulds Foundation

EDUCATION

SUPPORT GEN

FROM CLASSROOMS TO CONCERT HALLS

Seraphic Fire Education comprises five mission-driven initiatives that encourage the occupational advancement of musicians and promote community well-being. Seraphic Fire Artistic Director Patrick Dupré Quigley offers his reflections on three programs that prepare emerging singers and composers to work in the growing industry of professional ensemble singing.

professional choral institute at aspen competitive auditions chaired by Associate Conductor James K. Bass. music festival and school provides participants This collaboration aims to help UCLA’s emerging professional with the opportunity to study in an intensive vocal and ensembleskills curriculum, as well as receive individual and group vocal coaching from professional members of Seraphic Fire. PCI singers participate in audition, resumé, and vocal masterclasses led by Quigley, Seraphic Fire Associate Conductor James K. Bass, and members of Seraphic Fire. PCI singers also have the opportunity to rehearse and sing two side-by-side concerts with Seraphic Fire, including a collaboration with the Aspen Festival Orchestra.

“Seraphic Fire began the Professional Choral Institute to fill in the educational gap between conservatory and a career in professional ensemble singing. Many of the members of Seraphic Fire literally had to learn on the job at our first professional gigs. While each of us had picked up skills along the way in school, either because of a well-connected professor or an extremely dedicated sight-singing teacher, this training was random and haphazard. The Professional Choral Institute, over the course of two weeks, gives students a crash course in the fundamentals of the professional ensemble singer.

Students are put in real professional scenarios and coached through the process by long-time members of Seraphic Fire, many who have sung with countless professional ensembles across the country and globe. Students receive training in bedrock skills for ensemble singing: sight reading, repertoire, rehearsal preparation, solo singing, vocal technique, and personal entrepreneurial skills. The Aspen Music Festival and School is the ideal forum for PCI, as it allows our students to perform alongside other aspiring pre-professional instrumentalists who have similar career goals.”

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singers discover outlets for professional employment while fulfilling Seraphic Fire’s educational mission to encourage the occupational advancement of musicians.

Seraphic Fire’s Youth Initiative, in partnership with Miami-Dade County Public Schools and University of Miami, is a free music education program serving elementary and middle school students in Miami-Dade County’s most challenged communities. Students learn music theory and vocal pedagogy fundamentals through interactive exercises with Seraphic Fire artists. In December and May of each season, Seraphic Fire performs a side-by-side concert with Youth Initiative pupils for hundreds of Miami-Dade County school students.

“The Ensemble Artist Program at UCLA provides eight students with a two-year intensive apprenticeship program with Seraphic Fire.

Ensemble Artist students are coached individually by members of Seraphic Fire, and perform alongside Seraphic Fire for two programs a year. Students are treated like professionals and are offered feedback after each coaching or performance, giving them significant job experience and a host of professional connections before they graduate from conservatory.”

• Dedicated listing in Seraphic Fire Magazine • Invitation to specially-curated education concerts • Invitation to initial University of Miami student composition workshops • Access to education workshops • Invitation to a post-concert reception

Join now!

SeraphicFire.org/Donate 305.285.9060

selected to create a 5-minute work that Seraphic Fire will premiere during season subscription concerts. This student works closely with Seraphic Fire Associate Conductor James K. Bass throughout the season and regularly attends rehearsals and performances in preparation for the premiere. The residency includes composition workshops and routine guidance from Seraphic Fire artists and conductors.

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MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS:

MASTER LEVEL: $6,000 ($1,200/year or $100/ month over 5 years) *Members at this level receive a unique GenS pin EDUCATOR LEVEL: $900 ($75/month) TEACHER LEVEL: $600 ($50/month) INSTUCTOR LEVEL: $300 ($25/month) TUTOR LEVEL: $120 ($10/month)

university of miami student composer in residence is

Seraphic Fire has always aimed not only to increase the ranks of performers in professional ensembles, but also to substantially contribute to the new repertoire for 21st century ensembles. The student composer program with University of Miami allows one musician to work with Seraphic Fire for an entire year. The student composer is embedded with the ensemble for all rehearsal periods in the year. He or she workshops a new piece with the ensemble over the course of the season, and that work is performed by Seraphic Fire.

Each student composer gets a hands-on experience with an ensemble of exceptional quality, and learns the particular intricacies of writing for the professional voice. Seraphic Fire, through mentorship and promotion, is able to usher in the next generation of composers who will continue to provide high-quality, high-level music for professional ensembles.”

Join Generation Seraphic Society! Your membership will financially support Seraphic Fire’s music education programs for the next generation of artists and music lovers.

For more information, contact Rhett Del Campo at Rhett@SeraphicFire.org

Seraphic Fire’s Youth Initiative is made possible in part by: HARRY F DUNCAN FOUNDATION

Seraphic Fire’s Youth Initiative is endowed in perpetuity by The Clinton Family Fund

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PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION 2019-2020 SCHEDULE

Join us one hour before the concert for a pre-concert talk.

NOVEMBER 2019

DECEMBER

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: ORDO VIRTUTUM

MARCH 2020

Presentation by Amanda Crider

NORTHERN LIGHTS: MUSIC OF SCANDINAVIA

Presentation by James K. Bass

JANUARY 2020 ICONS: RUSSIAN CHORAL MASTERWORKS

APRIL 2020

Presentation by Sarah Moyer

HAYDN: ARIANNA A NAXOS

Presentation by Patrick Dupré Quigley & Steven Eddy

John Jacob Niles (1892-1980) Anonymous, Plainchant Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749)

MAY 2020

Anonymous, Plainchant Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951) arr. Susan LaBarr (b. 1981) Anonymous, German

Presentation by James K. Bass

BACH: COFFEE & WEDDING CANTATAS

JAMES K. BASS, GUEST CONDUCTOR

John Francis Wade (1711-1786)

BIEBL: AVE MARIA – MUSIC FOR MEN’S CHORUS

Presentation by Patrick Dupré Quigley & Clara Osowski

Anonymous, Cornish Anonymous, Catalan Anonymous, English Dominick DiOrio (b. 1984) James Kallembach (b. 1978) Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987) Anonymous, English Anonymous, African-American Anonymous, German Shawn Crouch (b. 1977) William J. Kirpatrick (1838-1921) & James Ramsey Murray (1841-1905) Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)

BACH: CELLO SUITES

Presentation by James K. Bass

HANDEL: ACIS AND GALATEA Presentation by Brad Diamond

2019

Grafton, VT | Sarasota | Miami | Boca Raton | Coral Gables | Miami Beach Ft. Lauderdale | Naples | Cutler Bay

HANDEL: MESSIAH

Presentation by Brad Diamond

FEBRUARY 2020

7-22,

I Wonder as I Wander Puer Natus Est Hodie Christus Natus Est Adeste Fideles Alma Redemptoris Mater Alma Redemptoris Mater Blessed Be that Maid Marie Maria durch ein Dornwald ging The First Nowell Fum, Fum, Fum The Holly and the Ivy Woods in Winter All Beautiful the March of Days Jesus Christ the Apple Tree Coventry Carol Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head Susanni, Susanni Lullaby Away in a Manger Silent Night

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JANUARY

Grafton, VT | Sarasota | Miami | Boca Raton | Coral Gables | Miami Beach Ft. Lauderdale | Naples | Cutler Bay

15-19,

Miami | Boca Raton | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach

ELENA SHARKOVA, GUEST CONDUCTOR

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

SOPRANO

Jane Long Sara Guttenberg Cait Frizzell Chelsea Helm

2020

ALTO

TENOR

Virginia Warnken Andrew Rader Kimberly Leeds

Paul Rudoi Nick Karageorgiou Steven Bradshaw

BASS

John Buffett Enrico Lagasca David Rugger

Grigory Sviridov (1914-1998)

All-Night Vigil, op. 37 (excerpts) Come, Let Us Worship Blessed Is the Man Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant Depart Rejoice, O Virgin Glory to God in the Highest Praise the Name of the Lord To Thee, the Victorious Leader Inexpressible Wonder Hear Us O Lord It Is Worth Christmas Song Glory and Alleluia The Inexpressible Wonder Having Witnessed a Wondrous Birth Glory

Valery Gavrilin (1939-1999)

Traditional Folk Song, arr. Grigory Smirnov (b.1982)

Traditional Folk Song, arr. Alexander Sveshnikov (1890- 1980)

The Chimes: A Miracle Play Death of the Robber; Morning Bells Nonsense Ti-Ri-Ri Evening Music Sunday White Snows Legend of the Twelve Robbers Evening Bells

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GUEST ARTISTS J A N U A R Y NO 1 5 -V1E M 9 ,B E2R0 62-01 0 , 2 0 1 9 Miami | Boca Raton | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach

PROGRAM

PERFORMING ARTISTS SOPRANO

Nola Richardson Sara Guttenberg Sarah Moyer Brenna Wells

ALTO

TENOR

Luthien Brackett Clara Osowski Elisa Sutherland

Patrick Muehleise Paul Rudoi Steve Soph

Tickets start at $25!

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BASS

Steven Eddy Enrico Lagasca Eric Alatorre Cameron Beauchamp

JAMES K. BASS

ELENA SHARKOVA

MELISSA D’ALBORA

James K. Bass, three-time GRAMMY® nominated conductor and singer, currently serves as the Director of Choral Studies at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA and is the Artistic Director of the Long Beach Camerata Singers.

He has prepared choirs for some of the most important conductors of our time including Sir Colin Davis, Sir David Willcocks, Michael Tilson Thomas, Gerard Schwarz, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Robert Shaw among others. He was selected by the master conductor of the Amsterdam Baroque Soloists, Ton Koopman, to be one of only 20 singers for a presentation of Cantatas

by J.S. Bach at Carnegie Hall. He has appeared as a soloist on a GRAMMY® nominated recording with the Austin, TX based choir Conspirare and has performed with numerous professional vocal ensembles, orchestras, and festivals.

Russian-American conductor Elena Sharkova is recognized nationally and internationally as an inspirational, versatile, and effective conductor, choral clinician, music educator, and lecturer.

She has conducted professional, university, youth, and community choirs and orchestras in 17 countries across North America, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. Sharkova has served as a jury member at numerous national and international music festivals and competitions. An expert on Russian choral music, Sharkova has lectured extensively on its repertoire and performance practices and conducted several U.S. premieres of Russian contemporary compositions.

Melissa D’Albora began her music studies at the age of seven on the piano. At 14, she began playing viola. Since her early studies on viola, she has performed many works ranging from Bach Cello Suites to Harbison’s Mirabai Songs.

D’Albora’s works have been performed along the East Coast. One of her later performances was her work “I Am Waiting” in Coral Gables, Florida on February 24, 2018. Since January 2018, she has received six commissions. Three commissions were educational from the Frost Preparatory Program, Walter C. Young Middle School, and Coral Gables Senior High School. The most recent commission is Perception of Sound for violinist Kendall Grady’s string quartet.

Sharkova regularly appears with professional artists; some of her most notable conducting engagements include Kronos Quartet, actor Ryan Gosling’s rock play Deadman’s Bones, and a spring 2012 series of performances with GRAMMY® Award winning “orchestra of voices” male choir Chanticleer as one of the ensemble’s 2011-2012 Guest Music Directors. As a soprano, Sharkova has performed and recorded with one of Russia’s finest professional choirs Lege Artis and appears on five studio CDs on Sony Classical Records label.

D’Albora holds two Bachelor of Music degrees in viola performance and composition from the University of Connecticut. She received her Master in Music Composition at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Her composition mentors have been Dr. Kenneth Fuchs, Dr. Augusta Read Thomas, Dr. Christopher Theofanidis, and Dr. Dorothy Hindman. She is currently studying with Dr. Mason while earning her D.M.A. in Composition at the Frost School of Music.

Guest Conductor

Bass also serves as Associate Conductor for Seraphic Fire and serves as Associate Program Director and faculty for the Professional Choral Institute at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Bass received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Miami–Florida, where he was a doctoral fellow and was a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy.

Guest Conductor

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Student Composer

2018-2019 LOOKING BACK 2018-2019 FINANCIALS

SOUTH FLORIDA AUDIENCE STATISTICS

REVENUES $1,687,000

# CONCERTS # ATTENDEES PROGRAM

43 concerts 6,794

attendees

5

645

ABQ: Spanish Pilgrimage

4

530

Chant for Men’s Voices

10

2193

6

945

I Have a Dream

4

816

Vivaldi and the Pietá

5

508

Korean Choral Treasures

4

555

Latin American Baroque

5

602

Poulenc’s Mass in G

A Seraphic Fire Christmas

SUBSCRIPTIONS $182K

CONCERT FEES $219K

SINGLE TICKETS $167K

FOUNDATION, CORPORATE, & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT $286K

PCI* TUITION/FEES $57K *Professional Choral Institute, see page 20 to read more

INDIVIDUAL GIVING $758K

CD SALES $18K

BUDGET GROWTH

Thanks to the generosity of our individual and institutional donors and ticket purchases from arts lovers across South Florida, we recognized a year-end surplus of $22,000 that will be used to further support Seraphic Fire’s mission

CITIES

All dollar amounts in thousands

La Jolla, CA YEAR

REVENUES

EXPENSES

SURPLUS (DEFICIT)

FY17

$1,649

$1,551 $98

Aspen, CO

FY18

$1,591

$1,555 $37

Mansfield, CT

FY19

$1,687

$1,665

FY20*

$1,807

$1,800 $7

$22

*current year budget

Los Angeles, CA

Westport, CT Coral Gables, FL Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Repertoire Vivaldi: Magnificat in G minor Poulenc: Mass in G Fauré: Requiem Mozart: Requiem

ADMINISTRATIVE $550K

Boca Raton, FL Cutler Bay, FL Key Biscayne, FL

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

EXPENSES $1,665,000

ARTISTIC & EDUCATION PROGRAMS $948K

MARKETING $133K

Miami, FL Featured Guest Artists American Brass Quintet Julian Darius Revie, composer Anthony Trecek-King, conductor Ileana Perez Velazquez, composer Euijoong Yoon, conductor

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Miami Beach, FL

DEVELOPMENT $34K

Naples, FL Goshen, IN Overland Park, KS Kansas City, MO Grafton, VT

Unaudited numbers for fiscal year ending May 31, 2019. Audited Financial Statements are available at SeraphicFire.org.

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Legacy Society

SUPPORT SERAPHIC FIRE

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

Seraphic Fire’s supporters are integral to our music-making and transformative education initiatives in Miami-Dade County’s most challenged communities.

Seraphic Fire has continued to strengthen its endowment to secure a place in South Florida for decades to come.

Seraphic Fire’s endowment consists of three funds at the Coral Gables Community Foundation.

Thomas Boyd & Donald Hill Dr. Clinton Bush William Jaume Patti & Dennis Klein Marilyn A. Moore

THE SERAPHIC FIRE YOUTH INITIATIVE FUND Endowed in perpetuity with a generous gift from The Clinton Family Fund, Bruce and Martha Clinton

$555,885

Ruth† & Marvin Sackner David L. Webb & W. Lynn McLaughlin

Patron: $1,000 Reserved-by-Name Seating, and all benefits listed below.

National Sponsor: $20,000 Private dinner with Patrick Dupré Quigley, and all benefits listed below.

Sustainer: $500 Invitation for two to the Season Announcement, and all benefits listed below.

Underwriter: $10,000 Name recognition in all materials for one Seraphic Fire Program, and all benefits listed below.

Sponsor: $2,500 Invitation for two to a private season opening reception, and all benefits listed below.

OVERALL ENDOWMENT FUND

Help ensure Seraphic Fire’s future through a bequest in your estate.

Seraphic Fire’s Legacy Society recognizes our cherished friends who have included Seraphic Fire in their long-range financial plans with a gift or trust arrangement.

For more information about making a gift to Seraphic Fire through your will or trust, or if you have already included Seraphic Fire in your plans, please contact Patrick Quigley at 305.285.9060.

Founder’s Circle: $50,000 + Recognition as a Season Sponsor, and all benefits listed below.

Maestro Circle: $5,000 An exclusive post-concert reception with select Seraphic Fire artists, and all benefits listed below.

Cliff Whittle & Scott Cumming

If you have made a bequest to Seraphic Fire, please let us know so that you can be recognized as a member of Seraphic Fire’s Legacy Society. Your gift will serve as an inspiration for others.

DONOR LEVELS

Donor: $250 An exclusive live recording of a 2018-2019 Season concert, and all benefits listed below.

Friend: $100 Name recognition in Seraphic Fire Magazine.

$702,815

BECOME A DONOR

Founder’s Circle ($50,000+) National Sponsor ($20,000+) Underwriter ($10,000+)

Maestro Circle ($5,000+) Sponsor ($2,500+) Patron ($1,000+)

DONATION TOTAL $

Name in Program:

THE SERAPHIC FIRE ENDOWMENT FUND In support of the organization’s long-term artistic goals

$39,062

THE RUTH SACKNER MEMORIAL FUND A Board-restricted reserve fund established in memory of Miami philanthropist and arts activist Ruth Sackner

$107,868

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OUR DONORS LEGACY SOCIETY Thomas Boyd & Donald Hill Dr. Clinton Bush William Jaume Patti & Dennis Klein Marilyn A. Moore Ruth† & Marvin Sackner David L. Webb & W. Lynn McLaughlin Cliff Whittle & Scott Cumming FOUNDERS CIRCLE $50,000 + Anonymous Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation§ John S. & James L. Knight Foundation William Jaume§ Frank & Carolyn Pichardo NATIONAL SPONSOR $20,000 - $49,999 Anonymous Robert R. Brinker & Nancy S. Fleischman Broward County Cultural Division Bruce & Martha Clinton, The Clinton Family Fund§ Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation Michael & Cheryl Del Campo§ Elizabeth & Joe Pollio, Pollio Family Foundation Marvin Sackner State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs UNDERWRITER $10,000 - $19,999 Thomas C. Boyd§ Alicia Celorio, Do Unto Others Trust, Inc. Martha R. Davis & Alix Ritchie Funding Arts Broward Funding Arts Network Hutson-Wiley Echevarria Foundation*§ The Kirk Foundation§ Key Biscayne Community Foundation, Inc. Ana & Raul Marmol§ City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council Miami-Dade County Youth Arts Enrichment Program§ Edmundo Pérez-de Cobos

FOR DONATIONS BETWEEN JANUARY 2018 & JUNE 2019

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2019-2020 HOSTS & VOLUNTEERS SERAPHIC FIRE HOSTS Nirupa Chaudhari & Steven Roper Carin Kahgan Janet Copeland Marilyn & Bernie Horowitz

Pamela Garrison Laura Calzolari Ana & Raul Marmol Phyllis Parsons Karen Dudley

Amanda Crider Elizabeth Newman Kim Thompson & Luis Ramirez Sara Solomon

VOLUNTEER ROSTER Ellen Anderson Jane Andersen Eugene Donaldson Bruce Dory Helen Franklin Joan and Paul Gluck Kristian Toimil Miguel Gonzalez

Natalie Gonzalez Matt Gonzalez Sue Groskreutz Elisa Halliley Jill Harrington Susan Mattes Lucia Minervini Anne Ober

Rev. Mary Beth Conroy Nanci Mitchell Clinton Bush Janet Shein Maxine Long

Like me, I am sure you miss the stunning sounds of the Seraphic Fire voices over the summer.

We also have missed seeing you at our concerts. Because our audience is so much a part of what we do, we have been hard at work throughout the summer developing ways for you to connect more deeply with Seraphic Fire. Through more informative materials, such as this magazine, a better experience on our website, and subscriber benefits that provide more personalized access, we are fully committed to making you feel engaged and valued in a way you so deserve.

You help make great art possible, for your own fulfillment and the enjoyment of those who might otherwise miss out on one of life’s greatest pleasures. Thank you for this, and for your commitment to Seraphic Fire.

Rhett M. Del Campo, Executive Director Heather Osowiecki David Piriano Anita Platt Chris Rudd Eric Runyan Kurt Schubert Barbara Soliday John Soliday

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dr. Thomas C. Boyd, Chair Joanne N. Schulte, Founding Chair Alaina Fotiu-Wojtowicz, Immediate Past Chair Robert “Bob” Brinker, Treasurer Diane Ashley, Secretary William Jaume, Vice Chair Mark Trowbridge, Vice Chair

VOLUNTEER HIGHLIGHT

Matthew Anderson Daniel Copher Karen Fuller Ana Marmol Carolyn Pichardo Claudia Polzin Margaret “Peggy” Rolando Adrian Villaraos

EUGENE DONALDSON In 2003 with excited anticipation I experienced Seraphic Fire’s first concert. This feeling has not left. As a choral singer myself, I deeply resonated with ALL that Seraphic Fire was gifting us.

This convergence of talents, intention and professional acumen just HAD to endure for our community. At once, I wanted to contribute to its success. And so it was, beginning with our first season at St. Jude.

Edmundo Pérez-de Cobos, Director Emeritus Patrick Dupré Quigley, Artistic Director, ex-officio Rhett M. Del Campo, Executive Director, ex-officio

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Rhett M. Del Campo, Executive Director Finance & Operations Eric Rubio, General Operations Manager Peter Buttler, Finance Consultant Artistic Administration Alexis Aimé, Artistic Operations Manager Joey Quigley, Artistic Consultant Development vacant, Patron Services Manager vacant, Grants Manager Marketing Laura Shand, Advancement Operations Manager Stepan Rudenko, Marketing Associate Gene Sobczak, Marketing & PR Consultant Education Suzanne Floyd, Education Director Catherine Bennett Walling, Education Liaison

Molly Quinn, Artist Representative, ex-officio Douglas Dodson, Artist Representative, ex-officio

Soon I discovered the joy of welcoming our choral music loving patrons. This role of welcoming gives me a great personal satisfaction, especially knowing that the musical experience that ensues uplifts our human experience.

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Seraphic Fire programs would not be possible without the generous support of

Naples performances made possible by the Jeri L. Wolfson Foundation & Charles L. Marshall, Jr. and Richard L. Tooke

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