Washington Classical Review Charles T. Downey November 14, 2016 Seraphic Fire made its latest visit to the Washington area on Sunday evening. Miami-based chamber choir presented the Requiem Masses of Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Duruflé on the concert series at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Georgetown. The performance of the former work was dedicated to the victims of the Paris attacks one year ago, and the latter to the memory of Washington choral conductor J…. Read More

South Florida Classical Review Lawrence Budmen November 12, 2016 Seraphic Fire returned to First United Methodist Church in Coral Gables, its former home, after a two-year absence Friday night with a program featuring music of remembrance. Two French requiems were the evening’s major offerings with a powerful new score providing an interlude. Music of Maurice Duruflé bookended the concert. The soaring melody of “Ubi Caritas” from Quatre Motets, a work often sung by church choirs… Read More

A Single Rose: Modernism in the Americas Program Notes Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 is the final piece in a set of nine suites by Villa-Lobos written between 1930 and 1945.The music draws mostly on Brazilian folk and popular idioms while incorporating Baroque harmonies and counterpoint.Each of the Bachianas Brasileiras is written for a different ensemble: some orchestra, some chamber ensembles, some for soloists and only one that includes choir – No.9. Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae was… Read More

South Florida Classical Review Lawrence Budmen October 19, 2014 Patrick Quigley can usually be counted on to take the route less traveled in choral programming. For the opening of Seraphic Fire’s 13th season, the choir’s director has conceived a concert of rarely heard American choral music (which can also be heard on “Reincarnations,” Seraphic Fire’s new CD). Quigley’s own arrangement of the traditional hymn How Can I Keep from Singing? provided both the program’s opening… Read More

Knight Arts Gregory Stepanich September 10, 2014 Anyone who’s talked to Patrick Dupré Quigley over the years at some point becomes aware that he is a committed advocate for American choral music and choral ensembles. Quigley’s latest recording with his Miami-based Seraphic Fire concert choir, released Tuesday, is a collection of American music spanning about 120 years, from the anonymous hymns of the Shaker community to new works by contemporary young composers whose scores recorded… Read More

South Florida Classical Review Lawrence Budman May 9, 2014 After a season that explored Baroque and Renaissance choral music, masterworks of Bach and Monteverdi and an alternative edition of Mozart’s Requiem, Seraphic Fire turned to down-home Americana Wednesday night. Patrick Dupré Quigley and his versatile chamber choir are closing their season with “Steal Away,” an exhilarating program of African-American spirituals. Quigley and his singers brought the same artistic integrity and splendid musicianship to these classic… Read More

Chicago Sun-Times Andrew Patner April 17, 2014 The conjunction of Western and Orthodox Easters along with the observance of Passover this year has meant a particularly rich offering of appropriate music for these days holy to so many. Last week at the Harris Theater, we saw a particularly well-received “Saint Matthew Passion” of Bach with John Nelson leading his Soli Deo Gloria forces and gifted tenor Nicholas Phan as The Evangelist. Wednesday evening at Rockefeller… Read More