Seraphic Fire

JASON MAX FERDINAND, 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Scarlatti Family Affair Sun, Feb 18 at 4:00 pm All Souls Episcopal Church, 4025 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140   PATRICK DUPRE QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR Father and son Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti were influential in the musical life of Naples, Italy in the Baroque period. Most commonly recalled for his keyboard sonatas learned by […]

The Fountains of Israel  Sun, March 24 at 4:00 pm All Souls Episcopal Church, 4025 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140   RUBEN VALENZUELA, CONDUCTOR Seraphic Fire welcomes guest conductor Ruben Valenzuela for a concert highlighting a collection of madrigals by German Baroque composer Johann Schein titled The Fountains of Israel. A predecessor to Bach—even holding the […]