Professional Choral Institute at Aspen Music Festival and School Our Executive Director Rhett M. Del Campo discusses his experiences with the Aspen Music Festival and School. Tell us about your professional music background and AMFS’s influence on your music career. My musical training was as a classical percussionist with two degrees in music performance. During my junior year of college I realized I needed to broaden my education, and was accepted into the Aspen Music… Read More

el Nuevo Herald Daniel Fernández May 17, 2017 El Miserere, de Allegri es posiblemente una de las obras corales más gustadas y conocidas. Excelente elección de la Seraphic Fire como atractivo principal del concierto final de su decimoquinta temporada. Este grupo, radicado en Miami, cuenta con voces extraordinarias que viajan desde ciudades a horas de vuelo para ofrecer estos conciertos que convierten esta ciudad en un baluarte de ese tipo de música. Los premios obtenidos… Read More

South Florida Classical Review Inesa Gegprifti May 11, 2017 Seraphic Fire is closing what has been a notably adventurous 15th anniversary season with a similarly wide-ranging program spanning more than 400 years. The Grammy-nominated choral ensemble graced Saint Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Church in Miami Wednesday evening with a performance that confirmed their world-class artistic level. The choir was led by associate conductor James K. Bass, with a guest appearance by the recent University of Miami… Read More

Palm Beach ArtsPaper Robert Croan April 16, 2017 Bach’s jubilant, elating Easter Oratorio (BWV 249) was the featured item in advance announcements of Seraphic Fire’s Easter weekend concerts (seen Friday night in Fort Lauderdale’s Sanctuary Church), but in the event, two shorter works on the first half of the program — one brand-new, the other older than Bach — provided the event’s most rewarding moments. At the start, conductor and artistic director Patrick Dupré Quigley… Read More

South Florida Classical Review David Fleshler April 15, 2017 Death and resurrection were the themes Friday, as the choir Seraphic Fire ushered in Easter weekend. Led by artistic director Patrick Dupré Quigley at The Sanctuary Church of Fort Lauderdale, the choir gave resonant, sensitive performances of music that spanned nearly 400 years, with a work from the early Baroque, a Bach classic and a world premiere performed with the composer in the audience. If classical… Read More

Cleveland.com Zachary Lewis March 17, 2017 Re-add Stravinsky to the list of composers the Cleveland Orchestra plays really, really well. Bruckner, Brahms, Mozart. These have been recent hallmarks. After the orchestra’s all-Stravinsky concert Thursday night at Severance Hall, however, it’s time to tack on another. Not only was the program, a broad and eclectic survey of the composer’s metamorphic career, well-conceived. It was also well-executed. Each of its four works received from music director Franz… Read More