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“one of South Florida’s finest musical organizations” – South Florida Classical Review

Founder & Artistic Director Patrick Dupre Quigley

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experience” - ArtBurst

WELCOME

C O N T E N T S

TO OUR 2022-23 SEASON!

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The Seraphic Fire Experience: Hear the finest vocal artists perform engaging and uplifting programming in South Florida’s reverberant and intimate spaces

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2022-23 Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Subscriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Venues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Support Seraphic Fire.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

SERAPHIC FIRE AT 20 Seraphic Fire celebrates its 20th anniversary with a season of extraordinary artistry. There is something for everyone in our concert programs in South Florida and beyond. Highlights include: •

In February, the third annual Enlightenment Festival will return with what Seraphic Fire does best: Bach, featuring two of the composer’s greatest oratorios.

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Jason Max Ferdinand, of the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers and the Oakwood Aolians, will lead a concert of American folk songs and spirituals.

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In March, internationally-renowned Venezuelan conductor María Guinand joins Seraphic Fire for a program that contrasts Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude with sacred and secular Spanish-language music.

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We will end the anniversary season with Founder and Artistic Director Patrick Dupre Quigley leading a 40-voice ensemble singing new commissions as well as Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium.

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This season will also see Seraphic Fire collaborating with other world-class ensembles through partnerships with Miami’s New World Symphony and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

We hope you will join us to celebrate the accomplishments of the past 20 years and to anticipate the next 20!

SeraphicFire.org/Experience

NOVEMBER 2022

Featuring:

When David Heard (Paul Crabtree) Tu Paz Mia* (Ileana Perez Velazquez) Love Bade Me Welcome (Ralph Vaughan Williams) Sea Drift (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor) Selections from Madrigals of War and Love (Claudio Monteverdi)

Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor To open its 20th Anniversary Season, Seraphic Fire explores the juxtaposition and intersection of love and war. Paul Crabtree’s When David Heard sets the tragic biblical love story of David sending his son Absalom to war in aching contrast with disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law’s exclamations upon meeting Catholic victims of abuse. Peace comes in human form in Ileana Perez Velazquez’s Tu Paz Mia, a Seraphic Firecommissioned work. Selections from Claudio Monteverdi’s Madrigals of War and Love—with groundbreaking and gorgeous counterpoint— round out the program.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation one hour before each concert

Miami | Nov 3, 7:30pm Coral Gables | Nov 4, 8:00pm

Ft. Lauderdale | Nov 5, 7:30pm Boca Raton | Nov 6, 4:00pm Learn more:

SeraphicFire.org/Love-War • 305.285.9060 *Commissioned with the support of a generous gift from William Jaume

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Featuring:

DECEMBER 2022

A Seraphic Fire CHRISTMAS

Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree (Elizabeth Poston) Silent Night (Franz Xavier Gruber)

James K. Bass, Associate conductor Within a serene candle-lit setting, the hustle and bustle of the holiday season will quiet and the a capella voices of Seraphic Fire will fill the room with musical peace and joy. Enjoy familiar favorites such as the hauntingly simple, yet lush Jesus Christ the Apple Tree and the enchanting Silent Night, and come away cherishing a newly discovered gem. Associate Conductor James K. Bass and the ensemble are pleased to present seasonal carols and heart-warming music in the 20th season of A Seraphic Fire Christmas.

Dec 4, 7:00pm | Naples Dec 7, 7:00pm | Sarasota Dec 9, 7:30pm | Coral Gables Dec 10, 7:00pm | Miami Beach Dec 11, 7:00pm | Ft. Lauderdale

Dec 13, 7:00pm | Boca Raton Dec 14, 7:30pm | Miami Dec 16, 8:00pm | Coral Gables Dec 18, 4:00pm | South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center* *visit smdcac.org for tickets

Learn more:

SeraphicFire.org/Christmas • 305.285.9060

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Made possible by the Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation

JANUARY 2023

Featuring:

Old American Songs (Aaron Copland) Hold Fast To Dreams (Joel Thompson) Lift Every Voice and Sing (Roland Carter) Psalm 57 (Betty Jackson King)

OLD NEW Jason Max Ferdinand, guest conductor Guest conductor Jason Max Ferdinand leads a program that sees contemporary composers breathing new life into traditional melodies and texts. Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs blur the line between historic and contemporary. Originally written for baritone William Warfield and tenor Peter Pears, the Old American Songs dress traditional tunes in 20th-century clothing. Masterpieces by modernist Betty Jackson King and Renaissance man Thomas Tomkins meld with arresting contemporary gems

by Ken Burton and Stacy Gibbs, sparkling against a backdrop of bedrock works by William Dawson, Moses Hogan, and Hal Johnson.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation one hour before each concert

Naples | Jan 19, 7:00pm Coral Gables | Jan 20, 8:00pm

Ft. Lauderdale | Jan 21, 7:30pm Miami Beach | Jan 22, 4:00pm Learn more:

SeraphicFire.org/Old-New • 305.285.9060

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Featuring:

THE ENLIGHTENMENT FESTIVAL The third annual Enlightenment Festival returns with two back-to-back weeks of choral-orchestral works. This year’s Festival will celebrate the music of Bach with programs highlighting the enduring composer’s sacred cantatas and oratorios.

Learn more:

SeraphicFire.org/Enlightenment • 305.285.9060

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Jesu, meines Lebens Leben (Dieterich Buxtehude) Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 (Johann Sebastian Bach) Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht, BWV 105 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Laetatus sum (Antonio Vivaldi) Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (Johann Sebastian Bach) Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

FEBRUARY 2023

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Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor

Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor

During an age of high mortality, Johann Sebastian Bach experienced the stark and tenuous nature of life and death firsthand. As a result, Bach’s music of human existence and death is, unsurprisingly, probing and profound. Seraphic Fire sings two of Bach’s haunting cantatas on death, and Reginald Mobley is featured in the solo alto cantata Vergnügte Ruh in this musical evening of inspiration and reflection.

Joyous arrivals and awe-inspiring departures feature in the closing concert of Seraphic Fire’s third annual Enlightenment Festival. The first two cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio portray an expectant mother and nonplussed shepherds preparing for a child’s arrival. The Ascension Oratorio is particularly thrilling with spectacular opening and closing trumpets, its coloratura passages, and equally challenging chorale. Chamber orchestra and students from the UCLA Ensemble Artist Program join Seraphic Fire singers to perform two of Bach’s great works in a burst of sonic glory in this arresting program.

Life

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation one hour before each concert

Miami | Feb 16, 7:30pm Coral Gables | Feb 17, 7:30pm

Ft. Lauderdale | Feb 18, 7:30pm Miami Beach | Feb 19, 4:00pm

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation one hour before each concert

Naples | Feb 23, 7:00pm Coral Gables | Feb 24, 8:00pm

Ft. Lauderdale | Feb 25, 7:30pm Boca Raton | Feb 26, 4:00pm

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MARCH 2023

Featuring:

SACRED PROFANE María Guinand, guest conductor María Guinand, internationally lauded director of the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, joins Seraphic Fire to weave a program that contrasts the heavenly love of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude with secular, Spanish-language Renaissance and contemporary works on earthly themes of humor, desire, and the sea. Disparity and contradiction are on display in this thought-provoking program.

Join us for a Pre-Concert Conversation one hour before each concert

Mar 22, 7:30pm | Miami Mar 23, 7:00pm | Naples Mar 24, 7:30pm | Coral Gables Learn more:

Mar 25, 7:30pm | Ft. Lauderdale Mar 26, 4:00pm | Miami Beach

SeraphicFire.org/Sacred-Profane • 305.285.9060

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Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 (Johann Sebastian Bach) El Guayaboso (Guido López Gavilán) Caramba mi amor (Otilio Galíndez) Evohé (José Antonio Calcaño)

APRIL 2023

Featuring:

The Road from Hiroshima (Shawn Crouch) New Commission (Sydney Guillaume) Danzas del Silencio* (Alvaro Bermudez) Beloved of the Sky** (Tawnie Olson) Spem in alium (Thomas Tallis)

FIRST LAST 20th Anniversary Concert Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor To honor the conclusion of our 20th Anniversary season, Seraphic Fire celebrates with a program containing both the oldest and newest pieces in our repertoire. William Billing’s Invocation was the first work performed by Seraphic Fire, and the first line of this American hymn—“Majestic God, our Muse inspire, and fill us with Seraphic fire”—is the source for the ensemble’s name. Shawn Crouch’s The Road From Hiroshima was the first piece of music commissioned and premiered by Seraphic Fire. Representing Seraphic Fire’s newest projects are three world premiere performances of works by Alvaro Bermudez, Sydney Guillaume, and Tawnie Olson. The ensemble’s first performance of Thomas Tallis’ massive 40-voice motet Spem in alium is the icing on the birthday cake of this celebration 20 years of glorious music.

Naples | Apr 27, 7:00pm Coral Gables | Apr 28, 8:00pm

Learn more:

* Commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ** Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University

Made possible by: William Jaume

Ft. Lauderdale | Apr 29, 7:30pm Boca Raton | Apr 30, 4:00pm

SeraphicFire.org/First-Last • 305.285.9060 BARLOW ENDOWMENT FOR MUSIC COMPOSITION

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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS JANUARY 2023

Carmina Burana

MAY 2023

HAYDN: THE CREATION

Seraphic Fire with New World Symphony

Seraphic Fire with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor

Robert Spano, conductor

From the powerful “O, Fortuna” to the jaunty “Tempus est iocundum” and virtuosic “Dulcissime,” experience New World Symphony, Seraphic Fire, and students from the choral programs of Florida International University, Florida Memorial University, Miami-Dade College, and University of Miami performing Carl Orff’s cinematic illustration of fate, Carmina Burana. 2021 Leonard Bernstein Award recipient and international rising star pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason is soloist in Clara Schumann’s dramatic Piano Concerto. Then, Seraphic Fire steps to the fore with the New World Symphony in Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music for 16 solo voices and orchestra.

Seraphic Fire will join Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra to close out Robert Spano’s inaugural season as Music Director with Haydn’s monumental work, The Creation, a dramatic oratorio for vocal soloists, orchestra, and choir that renders the Biblical text in music. Acclaimed visual artist Elaine J. McCarthy — whose work has appeared at The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, on Broadway, and more — lends her talents to bring this ambitious production to life.

SAT, JAN 14, 8:00PM

FRI, MAY 19, 7:30PM • SAT, MAY 20, 7:30PM • SUN, MAY 21, 2:00PM

To purchase tickets, visit nws.edu

To purchase tickets, visit fwsymphony.org

Adrienne Arsht Center - Knight Concert Hall 1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132

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Bass Performance Hall 4th and Calhoun Streets, Fort Worth, TX 76102

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OUR VENUES BOCA RATON

St. Gregory’s Episcopal 100 NE Mizner Blvd, Boca Raton, FL 33432 Complimentary parking available on site

MIAMI

St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral 2401 SW 3rd Ave, Miami, FL 33129 Complimentary parking available on site

Nov 6 • Dec 13 • Feb 26 • Apr 30

Nov 3 • Dec 14 • Feb 16 • Mar 22

CORAL GABLES

MIAMI BEACH

Church of the Little Flower 2711 Indian Mound Tr, Coral Gables, FL 33134 Complimentary parking available on site Nov 4 • Dec 16 • Jan 20 • Feb 24 • Apr 28

St. Philip’s Episcopal 1121 Andalusia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134 Complimentary valet parking available 45 minutes before performances Dec 9 • Feb 17 • Mar 24

FT. LAUDERDALE

All Saints Episcopal 333 Tarpon Dr, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301 Complimentary parking available on site Nov 5 • Dec 11 • Jan 21 • Feb 18 • Feb 25 Mar 25 • Apr 29

All Souls Episcopal 4025 Pine Tree Dr, Miami Beach, FL 33140 Complimentary valet parking available 45 minutes before performances Dec 10 • Jan 22 • Feb 19 • Mar 26

NAPLES

Vanderbilt Presbyterian 1225 Piper Blvd, Naples, FL 34110 Complimentary parking available on site

Join us outside Florida!

Wed, Aug 17

Aspen, CO

Professional Choral Institute with Seraphic Fire

Sun, Aug 21

Aspen, CO

Berlioz: Requiem

Fri, Dec 2

Grafton, VT

A Seraphic Fire Christmas

Fri, May 19

Fort Worth, TX

Haydn: The Creation

Sat, May 20

Fort Worth, TX

Haydn: The Creation

Sun, May 21

Fort Worth, TX

Haydn: The Creation

Dec 4 • Jan 19 • Feb 23 • Mar 23 • Apr 27

SARASOTA

St. Boniface Episcopal 5615 Midnight Pass Rd, Sarasota, FL 34242 Complimentary parking available on site Dec 7

All venues are accessible with handicap seating available. To request materials in an accessible format, sign language interpreters, CART, and/or any disability accommodation, please contact JJ Flores at 305.692.0268 or JJ@SeraphicFire.org five days in advance to initiate your request. TTY users may also call 711 (Florida Relay Service).

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SUPPORT SERAPHIC FIRE Seraphic Fire’s supporters permit the ensemble to bring to life presentations of historically significant, underperformed music and fund our transformative education initiatives.

TREAT YOURSELF TO VIP SEATING! Reserve the best seats in the house by contributing $1,000 or more to receive PREMIUM RESERVED-BY-NAME SEATING for up to 4 patrons.

Donor Levels FOUNDER’S CIRCLE: $50,000+

SPONSOR: $2,500

NATIONAL SPONSOR: $20,000

PATRON: $1,000

Recognition as a Season Sponsor, and all benefits listed below.

Private dinner with Patrick Dupre Quigley, and all benefits listed below.

UNDERWRITER: $10,000

Name recognition in all materials for one Seraphic Fire program, and all benefits listed below.

MAESTRO CIRCLE: $5,000

An exclusive post-concert reception with select Seraphic Fire artists, and all benefits listed below.

Invitation for two to a private season opening reception, and all benefits listed below.

Reserved-by-Name Seating, and all benefits listed below.

SUSTAINER: $500

Invitation for two to the Season Announcement, and all benefits listed below.

DONOR: $250

Donor recognition in Seraphic Fire Magazine, and all benefits listed below.

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Naples performances made possible by the Jeri L. Wolfson Foundation & Charles L. Marshall, Jr. and Richard L. Tooke. Performances in Miami-Dade and Broward counties sponsored by:

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Made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the support of the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council, the support of Funding Arts Network, Funding Arts Broward, as well as with the support of the City of Coral Gables and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Seraphic Fire is funded by The Children’s Trust. The Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County by making strategic investments in their future. Funding for Seraphic Fire is provided in part by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council. Seraphic Fire is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

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