2019-2020 SEASON | Volume I, Issue I

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ENLIGHTENMENT CELEBRATING 18 SEASONS From the ethereal beauty of festival Russia’s choral masterworks PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY SPEAKS ON BACH, HAYDN, HANDEL, AND MORE - PAGE 16 to the majesty of Handel’s immortal Messiah...

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A LETTER FROM THE BOARD 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. LOCATION SALES SERVICE 7815 SW 104TH St. 1-877-579-0775 1-866-372-8217 Miami, FL Mon.-Fri. 9am - 8pm Mon.-Fri. 7:30am - 7pm Thomas C. Boyd Sat. 8am - 5pm Sat. 9am - 6pm 2 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 Sun. Closed 3 Thomas| SEASON C. Boyd, EIGHTEEN Chair Sun. 11am - 5pm WilliamsonCadillac.com ©2019 General Motors. All Rights Reserved. Cadillac® A LETTER FROM OUR FOUNDER Seraphic Fire is a handcrafted concert experience – not available in New York South Florida’s trusted or Chicago or San Francisco, but here in South Florida. We are a bespoke organization, source of news and made for and with a particular listener. Only with your passion for our art information. and undying friendship is our experience complete. Made possible with listener support. Learn more at WLRN.org Patrick Dupré Quigley, Founder & Artistic Director

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Seraphic Fire brings together professional vocal and Patrick Dupré Quigley is the Founder and Artistic Director instrumental artists from around the country to of Seraphic Fire. He has guest conducted LRN perform repertoire ranging from medieval San Francisco Symphony, The Cleveland Public Media chant and Baroque masterpieces to Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Indianapolis commissions by leading living Symphony Orchestra, Grand Rapids composers. The Seraphic Fire Symphony, and New World media catalog contains 16 Symphony, among others. This So,You Like releases. In 2012, two of season, Quigley debuts with the ensemble’s recordings, the Philharmonia Baroque Brahms: Ein Deutsches Orchestra and New Requiem and A Seraphic Jersey Symphony. Fire Christmas, were In his 17 years as Artistic nominated for Director, Seraphic Fire Cultural ® GRAMMY Awards. has grown to present an annual, multi-venue Seraphic Fire’s artistic subscription concert series. accomplishments also have Seraphic Fire’s multiple Events? translated to partnerships educational outreach programs with The Cleveland Orchestra – including the Seraphic Fire and New World Symphony, Youth Initiative, Seraphic Fire- among others. At the forefront of UCLA Ensemble Artist Program, and Seraphic Fire’s mission is a commitment the Professional Choral Institute at the to community well-being and musician Aspen Music Festival – reach thousands advancement through educational programs of students, from elementary to graduate school. for South Florida’s underserved elementary students, as Quigley holds a master’s degree from the Yale School of Music, well as rising music professionals at University of Miami, Florida an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, and International University, UCLA, and the Aspen Music Festival has pursued further professional studies at the Lilly Family School of and School. Philanthropy’s Fundraising School.

4 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 5 | SEASON EIGHTEEN 2019-2020 PREMIER EXPERIENCES SEASON AT A GLANCE February 12-23, 2020 It’s “the SMARTEST, most CREATIVE, consistently excellent classical PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR A celebration of music of some of this world’s greatest minds, Seraphic Fire’s music ticket in South Florida” (Sun-Sentinel). Seraphic Fire Premier Subscriptions Enlightenment Festival focuses on the music that Handel, Haydn, and Bach offer premier access throughout the year to a premier musical experience. 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 SERIES SHARED FIREPASS SELECT Handel: Acis and Galatea Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Naples PREMIER BENEFITS PREMIER November 6-10, 2019 PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR BENEFITS BENEFITS 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 back to life. Reserved open seating Ordo Virtutum Miami | Boca Raton | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach Invitation to a post-concert reception to March 11-15, 2020 meet the artists of Seraphic Fire RAGNAR BOHLIN, GUEST CONDUCTOR Ragnar Bohlin, director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, conducts an Complimentary ticket Invitation to a post-concert talk-back with evening of choral music from Scandinavia, featuring fresh harmonies, pulsing to a special chamber Patrick Dupré Quigley rhythms, and fantastical choral effects. concert in February 2020 Miami | Naples | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach Invitation to a “town hall” conference call with Invitation to select Patrick Dupré Quigley and the artists of Seraphic Fire December 7-22, 2019 JAMES K. BASS, GUEST CONDUCTOR Seraphic Fire open Create your own rehearsals Autographed Seraphic Fire CD signed by The incomparable voices of Seraphic Fire resound in carols, ancient and Patrick Dupré Quigley three- to eight-concert modern, in this new Christmas program, featuring Gregorian chant, subscription package Renaissance motets, English carols and the traditional singing of Access to Seraphic Fire Silent Night and others. Youth Initiative education Live CD recording of Seraphic Fire with American Brass Quintet, November 2018 Grafton, VT | Sarasota | Miami | Boca Raton |Coral Gables concerts Miami Beach Ft. Lauderdale | Naples | Cutler Bay April 15-19, 2020 Flexible ticket exchanges for Seraphic Fire PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR Upgrade certificate to For the first time since 2004, Seraphic Fire and Patrick Dupré Quigley perform performances throughout South Florida Reserved-by-Name Handel’s complete Messiah in concerts to benefit Seraphic Fire’s education and Seating for one musician advancement programs. subscription concert No processing fees on subscription packages Boca Raton | Naples | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Cutler Bay or additional tickets purchased

Tickets donated back to Seraphic Fire will be transferred to community January 15-19, 2020 organizations 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. For more information on all 2019-2020 subscription packages, visit www.seraphicfire.org/experience or call 305.285.9060 Boca Raton | Miami | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach 6 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 SOPRANO SARAH MOYER NOLA RICHARDSON City: Boston, MA City: New York, NY 2019-2020ARTIST ROSTER Seasons with SF: 5 Seasons with SF: 2 CAIT FRIZZELL Artistic Highlights: Artistic Highlights: Opera City: New York, NY Handel’s Messiah with Lafayette, Radamisto at the Seasons with SF: 3 Variant 6 + Bourbon Baroque, Kennedy Center, Grand Rapids Symphony, Artistic Highlights: soloist on the GRAMMY® nominated Skylark First Prize winner of the Linn Maxwell Keller Bach Debut solo recital at Weil “...a taut, mellifluous force.” CD Seven Words from the Cross, performing Competition, Bach Cantatas at Alice Tully Hall, Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, featured soloist with the Rolling Stones Arvo Pärt’s Passio, with Yale Schola Cantorum – Cleveland Plain Dealer alongside Dawn Upshaw and Stephanie Blythe for Phyllis Curtin’s memorial recital KATHRYN MUELLER MARGOT ROOD at the Tanglewood Festival, Barbara Bonney City: Raleigh, NC City: Alexandria, VA Lieder Prize Winner (AIMS Festival) Seasons with SF: 11 Seasons with SF: 9 Artistic Highlights: Artistic Highlights: SARA GUTTENBERG Singing Monteverdi’s Recording “La Paix” in CHORUS MASTER Vespers with Seraphic Fire in Charpentier’s Les Arts City: Byron, IL Mexico City’s cathedral and Palacio de Bellas Florissants with BEMF in Germany, singing Seasons with SF: 12 Artes, soloist for Mozart’s Vespers in Carnegie Stravinsky’s Threni with The Cleveland Artistic Highlights: Hall, Messiah as a soloist with Portland Orchestra, self-producing my debut solo Oregon Bach Festival, Baroque Orchestra under Monica Huggett, album of art song by Heather Gilligan, Mozart’s Requiem with Aspen Music Festival commission project and 3-week concert tour performing Polly Peachum in The Beggar’s and School, GRAMMY® winner of Indonesia with the Swara Sonora Trio Opera with Emmanuel Music

MOLLY NETTER REBECCA MYERS City: New York, NY City: Philadelphia, PA Seasons with SF: 3 Seasons with SF: 4 Artistic Highlights: Artistic Highlights: Soloist in the US and Performing the world Japanese premieres of premiere of Aniara with The ARTIST David Lang’s Prayers for Night and Sleep, Crossing in Philadelphia, Amsterdam, and HIGHLIGHT roles in “Versailles” program and la Carnaval Helsinki, commissioning, producing and AMANDA CRIDER, ALTO de Venise at the 2017 BEMF festival, featured performing in Moonlite, a piece by Wally Gunn Base City: Miami, FL on the recording of Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs with Variant 6, singing in a twelve voice Seasons with SF: 8 de Versailles & Les Arts Florissants (2019) as Messiah with Variant 6 and Bourbon Baroque, Mezzo Soprano, Amanda Crider has “la Poesie.” Role of “Joan of Arc” in Amy Beth performing in the world premiere of Julia sung with companies across the US Kirsten’s Savior with the Chicago Symphony Wolfe’s Fire in My Mouth with the New York including Los Angeles Opera, Boston Lyric Orchestra, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street Philharmonic Opera, Dallas Opera, New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera MOLLY QUINN BRENNA WELLS and Florentine Opera. She has appeared as City: Chapel Hill, NC City: Seattle, WA a soloist with ensembles including Apollo’s Seasons with SF: 8 Seasons with SF: 5 Fire, Seraphic Fire, New World Symphony and the International Contemporary Artistic Highlights: Artistic Highlights: Ensemble. A prize winner in the José Iturbi Soloist in historic Soloist with the Aspen International, Jensen Foundation, Palm Shostakovich Hall in Festival Orchestra, soloist at Beach Opera, Oratorio Society of New St Petersburg, Russia, singing backup for The the Aldeburgh Festival in England, soloist York, and Center for Contemporary Rolling Stones with the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Opera vocal competitions, Amanda is also a recipient of a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation and the Artistic For complete artist bios,8 |please VOLUME visit 1, ISSUE www.seraphicfire.org/about 1 Director of IlluminArts. 9 | SEASON EIGHTEEN STEFANIE MOORE DOUGLAS DODSON ANDREW RADER KATE MARONEY PAUL JOHN RUDOI City: Los Angeles, CA City: Boston, MA City: Indianapolis, IN City: Brooklyn, NY City: Minneapolis, MN Seasons with SF: 3 Seasons with SF: 6 Seasons with SF: 1 Seasons with SF: 2 Seasons with SF: 3 Artistic Highlights: Artistic Highlights: Artistic Highlights: Artistic Highlights: Artistic Highlights: Soloist in Service Music and Messiah with Charlotte Italian trecento recording World Tour of Einstein Singing Bach and Bruckner Post-Service Concert at the Symphony and South Dakota with Liber, The Gospel on the Beach, Missy Mazzoli’s alongside the Cleveland Interment of the Ashes of Matthew Shepard, Symphony, roles with Boston Baroque and According to the Other Mary with Los Angeles Song From the Opera at Los Angeles Opera, Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst, Composer- singing Selections from Considering Matthew Chicago Opera Theater, international debut Philharmonic, Seven Days of Creation recital Carmel Bach Festival Adams Fellow, tour of in-Residence and Tenor Vocalist for the Santa Shepard by Craig Hella Johnson, Soprano Soloist with Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, Ireland with Gare Saint Lazare Ireland in an Fe Desert Chorale’s 2019 Summer Season, in Mozart’s Requiem, singing Vivaldi’s In furore 3-day Jeopardy! champion ELISA SUTHERLAND all-Beckett pastiche with music by Paul Clark Cantus premiere of Nico Muhly’s Luminous with Bach Collegium San Diego 2018 City: Brooklyn, NY Body with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra MARGARET LIAS Seasons with SF: 3 JANE LONG City: Boston, MA Artistic Highlights: TENOR STEVE SOPH City: Seattle, WA Seasons with SF: 6 Performing Julia Wolfe’s City: Philadelphia, PA Seasons with SF: 1 Artistic Highlights: Fire In My Mouth with The STEVEN BRADSHAW Seasons with SF: 9 Artistic Highlights: Solo debut with the Crossing and the New York Philharmonic, City: Philadelphia, PA Artistic Highlights: Buxtehude’s Jesu Membra Cleveland Orchestra in 2017, performing a 12-voice Handel’s Messiah Seasons with SF: 5 Stravinsky’s Threni with Nostri with Alexander Weimann, performing John Harbison’s The Supper at with my ensemble, Variant 6 & Bourbon Artistic Highlights: The Cleveland Orchestra, collaborative and innovative performances Emmaus with John conducting in 2019, Baroque, premiering Moonlite, a new Premier of Ted Hearne’s Bach, Handel, and Purcell with Philharmonia with Arkora Music Collective, Dido in Dido and participating in the Kuhmo Chamber Music oratorio by Wally Gunn with Variant 6 and PLACE at BAM, 300 Baroque Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with Aenaes, Purcell Tour of Vivaldi’s Magnificat Festival in Kuhmo, Finland in 2015 Mobius Percussion performances of Lifespan by David Lang, The Cleveland Orchestra,Evangelist in and Gloria with an all-women ensemble led by and 2016 GRAMMY® win for Bryars’ The 5th Century Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Charlotte Monica Huggett VIRGINIA WARNKEN Bach Festival EMILY MARVOSH City: Branford, CT ANDREW CRANE City: Boston, MA Seasons with SF: 8 City: American Fork, UT BRAD DIAMOND CHELSEA HELM ALTO Seasons with SF: 13 Artistic Highlights: Seasons with SF: 3 City: Birmingham, AL City: New York, NY Artistic Highlights: 2014 GRAMMY® Award for Artistic Highlights: Seasons with SF: 8 Seasons with SF: 2 LUTHIEN BRACKETT Messiah soloist with the Best Chamber Album, Conducted Brigham Young Artistic Highlights: Artistic Highlights: City: London, UK Handel and Haydn Society, featured soloist with the New York University Singers at the Solo vocalist under St. Matthew Passion with Seasons with SF: 6 European solo debut with the Chorus of Westerly, Philharmonic, performances with Los national conference of ACDA, conducted Leonard Bernstein, private the Charlotte Bach Festival, Artistic Highlights: David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion, St. John Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco world premiere performance of composer performance for Prince Charles of Wales, under the direction of Scott Allen Jarrett, Performing with The Passion in Stuttgart with Helmuth Rilling Symphony Ivo Antognini’s major choral/orchestral work performances of Schubert song cycles “Bach Plus,” a program of Bach Motets and Monteverdi Choir at the BBC A Prayer for Mother Earth at Carnegie Hall, compositions by Ted Hearne with Conspirare, Proms, Performing the Russian premiere of CLARA OSOWSKI KIMBERLY LEEDS Tenor solos in Mozart’s Requiem with the NICK KARAGEORGIOU singing the role of Norina in Donizetti’s Don Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week with the City: Minneapolis, MN City: Boston, MA Santa Fe Desert Chorale alongside mezzo- City: New York, NY Pasquale with the Janiec Opera Company, Clarion Choir at the Grand Hall Philharmonic Seasons with SF: 4 Seasons with SF: 1 soprano soloist Susan Graham, performed Seasons with SF: 1 recording a Downbeat-award-winning album of in St. Petersburg, solo début at Lincoln Artistic Highlights: Artistic Highlights: with Seraphic Fire as part of the inaugural Artistic Highlights: original arrangements with vocal jazz quartet Center’s Alice Tully Hall in Handel’s Messiah McKnight Fellowship, Winning the 2016 Professional Choral Institute at the Aspen LA Opera/Prototype Four Corners with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, winning Prize Winner at Das Lied, Tafelmusik Vocal Competition, Music Festival Festival/Trinity Wall Street first place in the 2008 Tolosa International Wigmore Hall, & CMIM Song Competitions, working with Philip Herreweghe as a Britten collaboration of Ellen Reid’s ARWEN MYERS Choral Competition with my group, Antioch Metropolitan Opera Regional Finalist Pears Young Artist, performing Julia Wolfe’s PATRICK MUEHLEISE Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, p r i s m, City: Portland, OR Fire in my Mouth with the Crossing in City: New York, NY International Tour to South Korea and China Seasons with SF: 1 collaboration with the NY Philharmonic, Seasons with SF: 10 with Cantus, tenor Soloist of Bach’s BWV 5 Artistic Highlights: and attending the Carmel Bach Festival Artistic Highlights: under Julian Wachner at Trinity Wall Street, Handel with Philharmonia as a Virginia Best Adams Fellow Monteverdi’s Vespers member of Seraphic Fire concerts in Sun Baroque Orchestra, Bach & Purcell “Wonderfully crisp and celebratory” with Jane Glover, Reich’s Valley, ID, performing Perotin’s Sederunt with Portland Baroque Orchestra, Vivaldi, Desert Music with New World Symphony, Monteverdi & Gabrieli with Early Music Vancouver, – The Washington Post Mozart’s Requiem at Aspen Music Festival Singing Handel & Bach with Oregon Bach Festival

10 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 11 | SEASON EIGHTEEN BASS JAMES K. BASS ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR City: Los Angeles, CA ERIC ALATORRE Seasons with SF: 17 City: San Francisco, CA Artistic Highlights: Seasons with SF: 1 Director of Choral Studies at the Artistic Highlights: Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA, Artistic GRAMMY® Award 1993, ARTIST Director of the Long Beach Camerata Singers 2000, 2003, ensemble of the HIGHLIGHT year 2008, Classical Music Hall of Fame 2009 JOHN BUFFETT, BASS CAMERON BEAUCHAMP Base City: Los Angeles, CA City: San Antonio, TX STEVEN EDDY Seasons with SF: 8 NOVEMBER 6-10, 2019 Seasons with SF: 11 City: New York, NY Baritone John Buffett enjoys a Artistic Highlights: Seasons with SF: 4 versatile career and has sung with Miami | Boca Raton | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach Performed on three Artistic Highlights: the Symphonies of Utah, San Antonio, GRAMMY® Award-winning New York Philharmonic and Winston-Salem, The Mark Morris albums, ten GRAMMY® - nominated albums, debut, June 2019, 1st prize Dance Group, The Los Angeles and PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR and one Downbeat Award-winning album winner of the Oratorio Society of New York Rochester Philharmonics, The Cleveland Competition, Concerts with Seraphic Fire, Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, Ars Lyrica, Bach Hildegard von Bingen MICHAEL HAWES ORDO VIRTUTUM Philharmonic Baroque, True Concord Voices & Collegium San Diego, The Charlotte and City: Chicago, IL (1098-1179) Orchestra, and American Classical Orchestra Oregon Bach Festivals, The Tanglewood, Seasons with SF: 2 Prologue Aspen, Mostly Mozart and Boston Early Artistic Highlights: CHARLES WESLEY EVANS Music Festivals, Seraphic Fire, The Santa Clarion Choir, MET Gala, Part I: The Soul invokes the Virtues City: Iowa City, IA Fe Desert Chorale, and the Los Angeles Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, Verdi Requiem Seasons with SF: 9 Master Chorale. Mr. Buffett, currently Part II: Enter the Devil Artistic Highlights: on faculty at CSU Long Beach, DAVID RUGGER Finalist at Mobile Opera received bachelor’s and master’s City: Indianapolis, IN Part III: The Soul Returns Auditions, Finalistin the degrees from the Eastman Seasons with SF: 1 Orpheus National Vocal Competition School of Music Artistic Highlights: Part IV: Struggle between Virtues and the Devil Performing with Bach ENRICO LAGASCA Processional Society of St. Louis, City: New York, NY Bach Akademie Charlotte, Mountainside Seasons with SF: 3 Baroque, Bach Society of Dayton Artistic Highlights: Season performances LUTHIEN BRACKETT include Conspirare and Anima (The Soul) Seraphic Fire, the New York Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony and Israel Philharmonic INSTRUMENTALISTS JAMES K. BASS Diabolus (The Devil) Orchestra. Appearances in the Salzburg CHLOE FEDOR, VIOLIN MEG OWENS, OBOE/RECORDER Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Mostly Mozart KATIE HYUN, VIOLIN JOE MONTICELLO, FLUTE SARA GUTTENBERG Festival and Bard Summerscape Festival EDSON SCHEID, VIOLIN JUSTIN BLACKWELL, ORGAN ISABELLE SEULA LEE, VIOLIN JOHN LENTI, LUTE Percussion THOMAS MCCARGAR STEPHEN GOIST, VIOLA MARY BOWDEN, TRUMPET City: New York, NY KYLE MILLER, VIOLA JOSH COHEN, TRUMPET DR. HONEY MECONI Seasons with SF: 11 GUY FISHMAN, CELLO RHETT DEL CAMPO, TIMPANI Advising Scholar Artistic Highlights: SARAH STONE, CELLO SCOTT ALLEN JARRETT, PIANO BASS HARPSICHORD/PIANO Choir of Trinity Wall NATHANIEL CHASE, LEON SCHELHASE, GEOFFREY BURGESS, OBOE/RECORDER Street, Roomful of Teeth, solos at Carnegie Hall and the Made possible by Marty Davis and Alix Ritchie Kennedy Center

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Miami | Boca Raton | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach PERFORMING ARTISTS HEAR HERE SOPRANO ALTO SPEAKER ENSEMBLE ARTIST Rebecca Myers Amanda Crider James K. Bass PROGRAM AT UCLA’S Sara Guttenberg Luthien Brackett HERB ALPERT SCHOOL Nola Richardson Margaret Lias OF MUSIC Molly Quinn Clara Osowski Elisse Albian Sarah Moyer Kate Maroney Tara Fay Arwen Myers Virginia Warnken Grace Martino Maia Sumanaweera

PIANO MUSIC AT ITS BEST! Visit seraphicfire.org/experience ROMAN RABINOVICH, Israel ROBERTO PLANO, Italy HORACIO LAVANDERA, Argentina Top Prize Rubinstein Int’l Comp., Tel Aviv 1st Prize Cleveland Int’l Piano Comp. 1st Prize Umberto Micheli, Milan for CDs & downloads DECEMBER 10, 2019 - 7:00 PM MARCH 2, 2020 - 7:00 PM. MAY 19, 2020 - 7:00 PM

SHAI WOSNER, Israel PAAVALI JUMPPANEN, Finland DAVID DUBAL, USA (Lecture-Recital) Avery Fisher Career Grant 1st Prize Young Concert Artists “Beethoven’s Place in the History of Humanity” JANUARY 21, 2020 - 7:00 PM MARCH 30, 2020 - 7:00 PM JANUARY 30, 2020 - 3:00 PM

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 FEBRUARY 11, 2020 - 7:00 PM JUNE 23, 2020 - 7:00 PM Sonatas No. 1, 2, 3, 4 “Grand Sonata” Sonatas No. 9, 10, 11, 12 “Funeral March” Sonatas No. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 “Waldstein”

NOVEMBER 12, 2019 - 7:00 PM APRIL 21, 2020 - 7:00 PM JULY 14, 2020 - 7:00 PM Sonatas No. 5, 6, 7, 8 “Pathetique” Sonatas No. 13, 14 “Moonlight”, 15 Sonatas No. 22, 23 “Appassionata”, 24, 25, 26 14 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 15 | SEASON EIGHTEEN VISIT: www.GrandPianoSeries.org VENUE: VANDERBILT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH REGULAR GA:$45 EARLY BIRD:$42 CALL: (646) 734 8179 What will the festival format allow audiences to experience? Music’s greatest philosophers—Bach, Handel, Rameau, Scarlatti, Mozart, Haydn, and even a young Beethoven—were reared in a greater The musical concert, by its very nature, only allows the audience and world that highly valued secular human achievements in the arts and musicians to be in contact with one to three masterpieces in an evening. sciences. Influenced by the painting, architecture, political discourse, For the visually inclined, think of a white room with the Mona Lisa hanging dance, theater, and design of the Enlightenment, the founders of music’s on the far wall with, perhaps, another three works of minor modern epoch were not in a vacuum. They knew the music of masters on the side walls. This is the incredibly their predecessors and their contemporaries. In this personal world of a concert evening: intimate, frenzy of new thought, it is only natural that music up-close interaction with art (music) where and musicians would be deeply affected. a single group of musicians and listeners can focus on a single idea for 75 to 120 Seraphic Fire has made a nearly minutes. At its best, it is something two-decade commitment to the thrilling, even life changing. music of the 18th century. The Enlightenment Festival will allow A festival builds upon the strength us to annually honor our and our of the concert experience to allow audience’s musical roots and both audience and performers pay homage to some of the most to focus on the wider concept of spectacularly talented musicians these masterpieces. Instead of the world has ever known. viewing the Mona Lisa in a stark white gallery, we encounter Da Vinci What will audiences experience FEBRUARY 12-23 surrounded by the entire treasures of the at the 2020 Enlightenment Louvre. Great masterpieces, be they music Festival? What can they hope to or paintings, are only enhanced by context. experience in future years? PATRICK DUPRÉ QUIGLEY, CONDUCTOR A multi-concert festival gives that context. Seraphic Fire’s Enlightenment Festival focuses on the music that Each year, the Enlightenment Festival will allow the Handel, Haydn, and Bach wrote for public performance with an Festivals provide breadth and depth to our entire Seraphic Fire community to take one musical emphasis on Classicism and dramatic works. collective musical experience. In the case of aspect of the 18th century and focus on its intricacies, this year’s Enlightenment Festival, we wanted its triumphs and its humanity. This year, to introduce the to explore the identity of some of the 18th century’s concept to our listeners and artists, we will be focusing on greatest thinkers: Bach, Haydn, and Handel. When dealing with the music that Bach, Haydn, and Handel wrote for intimate secular such remarkable musical treasures, a single concert would be grossly performances, whether they be at court, at home, or in the coffeehouse. insufficient to allow us, 21st century listeners and practitioners, to truly appreciate all their genius has to offer. The Enlightenment Festival, over Bach contributes three astounding works to this year’s festival. The four programs and ten performances, allows the Seraphic Fire audience “Coffee Cantata” was a comedic work to be staged in one of the master’s and ensemble to truly be immersed in the music of giants. favorite haunts: Zimmerman’s Coffee House in Leipzig, Germany, while “For our eighteenth season, we want to provide audiences with a Naxos, Bach’s secular cantatas and cello suites, and Handel’s Acis and the amorous “Wedding Cantata” is traditionally (though not necessarily an opportunity to explore the rich historical and multi-cultural Galatea, all featuring the members of Seraphic Fire in step-out solo roles. Why are you featuring the Enlightenment period in a festival? accurately) to the date of his marriage to Anna Magdalena Bach in tapestry of choral music,” says Seraphic Fire Artistic Director Patrick “The Enlightenment Festival will be a celebration of the music of some of 1721. Finally, Bach’s solo Cello Suites are certainly remarkable for their Dupré Quigley.” this world’s greatest minds,” offers Quigley. “Concerts will focus on the Tenets that we hold as indivisible parts of our soul—freedom of thought musical content, but even more so for the high regard in which Bach music that Handel, Haydn and Bach wrote for public performance with an and speech, secular government, the inherent value of all humans— holds the individual artist-musician. The new season marks several milestones for Miami’s GRAMMY® emphasis on Classicism and dramatic works.” were introduced as regular parts of discourse during the Enlightenment. nominated vocal ensemble, including the two-week Enlightenment Festival While the Age of Enlightenment remains difficult to definitively pinpoint, Haydn’s magnificent secular cantataArianna a Naxos most likely in February 2020 – the organization’s first ever – which will feature In the following pages, Quigley provides additional reflections on Handel, most will agree that it roughly follows the arc of the 18th century. Kant, came as a result of a years-long correspondence with a talented combinations of vocal and instrumental music in both chamber and Haydn and Bach and Seraphic Fire’s two weeks of performances honoring Hume, and Rousseau—these three intellectual giants, who all came of student, Josepha von Genzinger. In Haydn’s letters to Josepha, he asks festival settings to include selections from Franz Joseph Haydn’s Arianna their legacy and musical achievements. age during the mid-18th century, were only a small part of a European that she remember her teacher by “singing the cantata frequently,” arts and humanities firestorm. presumably in private, home performance.

16 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 17 | SEASON EIGHTEEN Finally, if Da Vinci was a “Renaissance” man, then Handel is most certainly satisfying on every level. As a performer, the music of the Enlightenment an “Enlightenment” man. That a court-level musician could support requires so much, both physically and mentally. The exactness of himself almost entirely through secular musical entrepreneurship would notation, the rise of the virtuoso, the growing length of musical works: have been almost unthinkable even just 100 years prior. Handel, when all of these combine to create a body of work which engages the he moved to London following the Hanovers, began his steady human performer on so many levels. As a listener, I never transition from kapellmeister to producer, inventing entire have run out of pieces to discover. The sheer output musical forms along the way. The delightfully tuneful of composers during the Enlightenment makes every Acis and Galatea was composed for a performance encounter a discovery. at Cannons, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Chandos. Its Classical story and “pastoral” What does producing a festival mean to score make it one of the shining examples of an Seraphic Fire? Enlightenment musical style. Work. Lots of work. CALENDAR OF EVENTS What does the music of the Enlightenment mean to Patrick Dupré Quigley? The Enlightenment Festival will be held on February 12-23 with performances in Boca Haydn: Arianna a Naxos Bach: Cello Suites Regardless of training, every musician has a period Raton, Coral Gables, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami Wed, Feb 12, 7:00pm | Ft. Lauderdale Tue, Feb 18, 7:30pm | Coral Gables or a composer or a style that speaks to them in a profound, and Naples. Please refer to the festival calendar in Sanctuary Church Church of the Little Flower almost spiritual way. My personal experience with the music of Seraphic Fire Magazine for additional details on programs, 1400 N Federal Hwy, 2711 Indian Mound Trail, the Enlightenment, bookended by Bach and Haydn, has been deeply dates, venues and tickets. Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304 Coral Gables, FL 33134 Thu, Feb 13, 7:30pm | Coral Gables Wed, Feb 19, 7:00pm | Ft. Lauderdale Church of the Little Flower Sanctuary Church 2711 Indian Mound Trail, 1400 N Federal Hwy, Coral Gables, FL 33134 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304 Partial funding provided by: Bach: Coffee and Wedding Handel: Acis and Galatea 2019-2020 Season Cantatas The Art of Extraordinary Music-Making Fri, Feb 21, 7:30pm | Coral Gables (FUM) Fri, Feb 14, 7:30pm | Coral Gables First United Methodist Trent R. Brown, Artistic Director www.SymphonicChorale.org St. Philip’s Episcopal 536 Coral Way, Abigail Allison, Accompanist or call 239-560-5695 121 Andalusia Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134 The Coral Gables, FL 33134 FUSION SingOut! L.A.T. Sat, Feb 22, 7:30pm | Ft. Lauderdale Mozart Coronation Mass & Foundation Sat, Feb 15, 7:30pm | Ft. Lauderdale SWFL Choral Festival All Saints Episcopal Bruckner Te Deum Welcomes ALL Singers All Saints Episcopal 333 Tarpon Dr, Sun. Nov. 17 ~ 4 PM 333 Tarpon Dr, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301 Faith Presbyterian Church Faith Presbyterian Church Timothy Takach, Clinician Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301 Sun, Feb 23, 4:00pm | Naples 4544 Coronado Pkwy 4544 Coronado Pkwy Cape Coral Cape Coral Sun, Feb 16, 4:00pm | Boca Raton Vanderbilt Presbyterian part of the Faith Concert Series ~ $20 Fri. Feb 21 & Sat Feb 22 ~ Festival Workshop St. Gregory’s Episcopal 1225 Piper Blvd, Sat. Feb 22 ~ 7:30 PM Festival Concert ~ FREE 100 NE Mizner Blvd, Naples, FL 34110 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Before the Morning Watch Beethoven’s 9th A Collaboration with Naples Phil ~ A Memorial Concert Orchestra & Chorus Featuring John Rutter’s Requiem The Claiborne For more information on the Enlightenment Festival, & other British composers Thu, Fri, Sat, May 7-9 ~ 8 PM & Ned Foulds Foundation visit www.seraphicfire.org/experience or call 305.285.9060 Sun. Mar 29 ~ 4 PM Artis-Naples Moorings Presbyterian Church 5833 Pelican Bay Blvd 791 Harbour Dr. Naples Naples tickets available through the Artis-Naples Box Office part of the Hyacinth Concert Series ~ FREE 18 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 19 | SEASON EIGHTEEN The Symphonic Chorale is an independent 501 (c)3 non-profit corporation. PO Box 07105, Ft. Myers, FL 33919 EDUCATION FROM CLASSROOMS TO CONCERT HALLS SUPPORT GEN Seraphic Fire Education comprises five mission-driven initiatives that encourage the occupational advancement of musicians and promote Join Generation Seraphic Society! Your community well-being. Seraphic Fire Artistic Director Patrick Dupré Quigley offers his reflections on three programs that prepare emerging Seraphic Fire’s Youth Initiative, in partnership with Miami-Dade County Public membership will financially support Seraphic singers and composers to work in the growing industry of professional ensemble singing. Schools and University of Miami, is a free music education program serving Fire’s music education programs for the next elementary and middle school students in Miami-Dade County’s most challenged generation of artists and music lovers. professional choral institute at aspen competitive auditions chaired by Associate Conductor James K. Bass. communities. Students learn music theory and vocal pedagogy fundamentals music festival and school provides participants This collaboration aims to help UCLA’s emerging professional through interactive exercises with Seraphic Fire artists. In December and May of MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS: with the opportunity to study in singers discover outlets for professional employment while fulfilling each season, Seraphic Fire performs a side-by-side concert with Youth Initiative • Dedicated listing in Seraphic Fire Magazine an intensive vocal and ensemble- Seraphic Fire’s educational mission to encourage the occupational pupils for hundreds of Miami-Dade County school students. • Invitation to specially-curated education concerts skills curriculum, as well as advancement of musicians. • Invitation to initial University of Miami receive individual and group student composition workshops “The Ensemble Artist Program at UCLA provides eight students with vocal coaching from professional • Access to education workshops a two-year intensive apprenticeship program with Seraphic Fire. members of Seraphic Fire. PCI singers participate in audition, resumé, • Invitation to a post-concert reception and vocal masterclasses led by Quigley, Seraphic Fire Associate Ensemble Artist students are coached individually by members of Conductor James K. Bass, and members of Seraphic Fire. PCI singers Seraphic Fire, and perform alongside Seraphic Fire for two programs a MASTER LEVEL: $6,000 ($1,200/year or $100/ also have the opportunity to rehearse and sing two side-by-side year. Students are treated like professionals and are offered feedback month over 5 years) *Members at this level concerts with Seraphic Fire, including a collaboration with the Aspen after each coaching or performance, giving them significant job receive a unique GenS pin Festival Orchestra. experience and a host of professional connections before they graduate EDUCATOR LEVEL: $900 ($75/month) from conservatory.” TEACHER LEVEL: $600 ($50/month) “Seraphic Fire began the Professional Choral Institute to fill in the INSTUCTOR LEVEL: $300 ($25/month) educational gap between conservatory and a career in professional TUTOR LEVEL: $120 ($10/month) ensemble singing. Many of the members of Seraphic Fire literally university of miami student composer had to learn on the job at our first professional gigs. While each of in residence is Join now! us had picked up skills along the way in school, either because of a selected to create a 5-minute SeraphicFire.org/Donate well-connected professor or an extremely dedicated sight-singing work that Seraphic Fire will 305.285.9060 teacher, this training was random and haphazard. The Professional premiere during season subscription concerts. This student works closely Choral Institute, over the course of two weeks, gives students a crash with Seraphic Fire Associate Conductor James K. Bass throughout the For more information, contact Rhett Del course in the fundamentals of the professional ensemble singer. season and regularly attends rehearsals and performances in preparation Campo at [email protected] Students are put in real professional scenarios and coached through for the premiere. The residency includes composition workshops and the process by long-time members of Seraphic Fire, many who have routine guidance from Seraphic Fire artists and conductors. sung with countless professional ensembles across the country and globe. Students receive training in bedrock skills for ensemble singing: Seraphic Fire has always aimed not only to increase the ranks of sight reading, repertoire, rehearsal preparation, solo singing, vocal performers in professional ensembles, but also to substantially technique, and personal entrepreneurial skills. The Aspen Music contribute to the new repertoire for 21st century ensembles. The Festival and School is the ideal forum for PCI, as it allows our students student composer program with University of Miami allows one to perform alongside other aspiring pre-professional instrumentalists musician to work with Seraphic Fire for an entire year. The student who have similar career goals.” 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. Seraphic Fire’s Youth Initiative is made possible in part by: ensemble artist program at ucla’s herb Each student composer gets a hands-on experience with an ensemble of exceptional quality, and learns the particular intricacies of writing HARRY F alpert school of music provides season-long DUNCAN vocal ensemble training to for the professional voice. Seraphic Fire, through mentorship and FOUNDATION undergraduate and graduate promotion, is able to usher in the next generation of composers voice students at the University who will continue to provide high-quality, high-level music for of California in Los Angeles. Participating artists are chosen through professional ensembles.”

Seraphic Fire’s Youth Initiative is endowed in 20 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 perpetuity by The Clinton Family Fund 21 | SEASON EIGHTEEN PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION 2019-2020 SCHEDULE Join us one hour before the concert for a pre-concert talk.

NOVEMBER 2019 DECEMBER 7-22, 2019 HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: ORDO VIRTUTUM Grafton, VT | Sarasota | Miami | Boca Raton | Coral Gables | Miami Beach Presentation by Amanda Crider MARCH 2020 Ft. Lauderdale | Naples | Cutler Bay NORTHERN LIGHTS: MUSIC OF SCANDINAVIA JAMES K. BASS, GUEST CONDUCTOR Presentation by James K. Bass JANUARY 2020 John Jacob Niles (1892-1980) I Wonder as I Wander ICONS: RUSSIAN CHORAL Anonymous, Plainchant Puer Natus Est MASTERWORKS Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749) Hodie Christus Natus Est Presentation by Sarah Moyer APRIL 2020 HANDEL: MESSIAH John Francis Wade (1711-1786) Adeste Fideles Presentation by Brad Diamond Anonymous, Plainchant Alma Redemptoris Mater Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951) Alma Redemptoris Mater FEBRUARY 2020 arr. Susan LaBarr (b. 1981) Blessed Be that Maid Marie MAY 2020 Anonymous, German Maria durch ein Dornwald ging HAYDN: ARIANNA A NAXOS BIEBL: AVE MARIA – Presentation by Patrick Dupré Quigley MUSIC FOR MEN’S CHORUS Anonymous, Cornish The First Nowell & Clara Osowski Presentation by James K. Bass Anonymous, Catalan Fum, Fum, Fum Anonymous, English The Holly and the Ivy Dominick DiOrio (b. 1984) Woods in Winter BACH: COFFEE & WEDDING CANTATAS James Kallembach (b. 1978) All Beautiful the March of Days Presentation by Patrick Dupré Quigley & Steven Eddy Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987) Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

Anonymous, English Coventry Carol Anonymous, African-American Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head BACH: CELLO SUITES Anonymous, German Susanni, Susanni Presentation by James K. Bass Shawn Crouch (b. 1977) Lullaby William J. Kirpatrick (1838-1921) Away in a Manger & James Ramsey Murray (1841-1905) Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863) Silent Night HANDEL: ACIS AND GALATEA Presentation by Brad Diamond Made possible by the Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation

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

PERFORMING ARTISTS Sergei Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil, op. 37 (excerpts) (1873-1943) Come, Let Us Worship SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Blessed Is the Man Jane Long Virginia Warnken Paul Rudoi John Buffett Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant Depart Sara Guttenberg Andrew Rader Nick Karageorgiou Enrico Lagasca Rejoice, O Virgin Cait Frizzell Kimberly Leeds Steven Bradshaw David Rugger Glory to God in the Highest Praise the Name of the Lord Chelsea Helm To Thee, the Victorious Leader

Grigory Sviridov Inexpressible Wonder (1914-1998) Hear Us O Lord It Is Worth Christmas Song Glory and Alleluia The Inexpressible Wonder

Having Witnessed a Wondrous Birth Glory

Valery Gavrilin The Chimes: A Miracle Play (1939-1999) Death of the Robber; Morning Bells Nonsense Ti-Ri-Ri Evening Music Sunday White Snows Traditional Folk Song, arr. Grigory Smirnov Legend of the Twelve Robbers (b.1982) Traditional Folk Song, arr. Alexander Sveshnikov Evening Bells (1890- 1980)

Made possible by an anonymous donor

24 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 25 | SEASON EIGHTEEN GUEST ARTISTS

JANUARY NOVEMBER15-19, 2020 6-10, 2019 Miami | Boca Raton | Coral Gables | Ft. Lauderdale | Miami Beach PROGRAM PERFORMING ARTISTS

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS JAMES K. BASS ELENA SHARKOVA MELISSA D’ALBORA Nola Richardson Luthien Brackett Patrick Muehleise Steven Eddy Guest Conductor Guest Conductor Student Composer Sara Guttenberg Clara Osowski Paul Rudoi Enrico Lagasca Sarah Moyer Elisa Sutherland Steve Soph Eric Alatorre James K. Bass, three-time GRAMMY® nominated Russian-American conductor Elena Sharkova is Melissa D’Albora began her music studies at Brenna Wells Cameron Beauchamp conductor and singer, currently serves as the recognized nationally and internationally as an the age of seven on the piano. At 14, she began Director of Choral Studies at the Herb Alpert inspirational, versatile, and effective conductor, playing viola. Since her early studies on viola, School of Music at UCLA and is the Artistic choral clinician, music educator, and lecturer. she has performed many works ranging from Director of the Long Beach Camerata Singers. She has conducted professional, university, Bach Cello Suites to Harbison’s Mirabai Songs. He has prepared choirs for some of the most youth, and community choirs and orchestras in D’Albora’s works have been performed along important conductors of our time including Sir 17 countries across North America, Asia, Eastern the East Coast. One of her later performances Colin Davis, Sir David Willcocks, Michael Tilson and Western Europe, Russia, and the Middle was her work “I Am Waiting” in Coral Gables, Thomas, Gerard Schwarz, Giancarlo Guerrero, East. Sharkova has served as a jury member Florida on February 24, 2018. Since January and Robert Shaw among others. He was selected at numerous national and international music 2018, she has received six commissions. Three by the master conductor of the Amsterdam festivals and competitions. An expert on Russian commissions were educational from the Frost Baroque Soloists, Ton Koopman, to be one of choral music, Sharkova has lectured extensively Preparatory Program, Walter C. Young Middle only 20 singers for a presentation of Cantatas on its repertoire and performance practices and School, and Coral Gables Senior High School. The by J.S. Bach at Carnegie Hall. He has appeared conducted several U.S. premieres of Russian most recent commission is Perception of Sound as a soloist on a GRAMMY® nominated recording contemporary compositions. for violinist Kendall Grady’s string quartet. with the Austin, TX based choir Conspirare and has performed with numerous professional vocal Sharkova regularly appears with professional D’Albora holds two Bachelor of Music degrees ensembles, orchestras, and festivals. artists; some of her most notable conducting in viola performance and composition from the engagements include Kronos Quartet, actor University of Connecticut. She received her Master Bass also serves as Associate Conductor for Ryan Gosling’s rock play Deadman’s Bones, in Music Composition at the University of Miami Seraphic Fire and serves as Associate Program and a spring 2012 series of performances with Frost School of Music. Her composition mentors Director and faculty for the Professional Choral GRAMMY® Award winning “orchestra of voices” have been Dr. Kenneth Fuchs, Dr. Augusta Read Institute at the Aspen Music Festival and School. male choir Chanticleer as one of the ensemble’s Thomas, Dr. Christopher Theofanidis, and Dr. Bass received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree 2011-2012 Guest Music Directors. As a soprano, Dorothy Hindman. She is currently studying with from the University of Miami–Florida, where he Sharkova has performed and recorded with one Dr. Mason while earning her D.M.A. in Composition Tickets start was a doctoral fellow and was a graduate of the of Russia’s finest professional choirs Lege Artis at the Frost School of Music. at $25! Interlochen Arts Academy. and appears on five studio CDs on Sony Classical Records label.

26 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 27 | SEASON EIGHTEEN 2018-2019 LOOKING BACK SOUTH FLORIDA AUDIENCE STATISTICS 2018-2019 FINANCIALS

# CONCERTS # ATTENDEES PROGRAM REVENUES $1,687,000 5 645 ABQ: Spanish Pilgrimage SUBSCRIPTIONS CONCERT FEES $182K $219K 4 530 Chant for Men’s Voices FOUNDATION, CORPORATE, & 43 10 2193 A Seraphic Fire Christmas SINGLE TICKETS GOVERNMENT SUPPORT concerts $167K 6 945 I Have a Dream $286K PCI* TUITION/FEES 6,794 4 816 Vivaldi and the Pietá attendees $57K 5 508 Korean Choral Treasures *Professional Choral Institute, see page 20 to read more 4 555 Latin American Baroque INDIVIDUAL GIVING CD SALES $758K 5 602 Poulenc’s Mass in G $18K Thanks to the generosity of our individual and institutional donors and ticket purchases from arts lovers across South Florida, we BUDGET GROWTH recognized a year-end surplus of $22,000 All dollar amounts in thousands CITIES that will be used to further support Seraphic Fire’s mission La Jolla, CA YEAR REVENUES EXPENSES SURPLUS (DEFICIT) Los Angeles, CA EXPENSES $1,665,000 FY17 $1,649 $1,551 $98 Aspen, CO FY18 $1,591 $1,555 $37 Mansfield, CT ADMINISTRATIVE Westport, CT FY19 $1,687 $1,665 $22 $550K Boca Raton, FL FY20* $1,807 $1,800 $7 Coral Gables, FL *current year budget ARTISTIC & EDUCATION Cutler Bay, FL PROGRAMS Ft. Lauderdale, FL $948K MARKETING Key Biscayne, FL $133K SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Miami, FL Repertoire Featured Guest Artists Miami Beach, FL DEVELOPMENT Vivaldi: Magnificat in G minor American Brass Quintet Naples, FL $34K Poulenc: Mass in G Julian Darius Revie, composer Goshen, IN Fauré: Requiem Anthony Trecek-King, conductor Overland Park, KS Mozart: Requiem Ileana Perez Velazquez, composer Kansas City, MO Euijoong Yoon, conductor Grafton, VT Unaudited numbers for fiscal year ending May 31, 2019. Audited Financial Statements are available at SeraphicFire.org.

28 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 29 | SEASON EIGHTEEN SUPPORT SERAPHIC FIRE Legacy 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. Society Seraphic Fire has continued to strengthen its endowment to secure a place in South Florida for decades to come. DONOR LEVELS Seraphic Fire’s endowment consists of three funds at the Founder’s Circle: $50,000 + Patron: $1,000 Thomas Boyd & Donald Hill Coral Gables Community Foundation. Recognition as a Season Sponsor, and all Reserved-by-Name Seating, benefits listed below. and all benefits listed below. Dr. Clinton Bush National Sponsor: $20,000 Sustainer: $500 William Jaume Private dinner with Patrick Dupré Quigley, Invitation for two to the THE SERAPHIC FIRE YOUTH INITIATIVE FUND and all benefits listed below. Season Announcement, Patti & Dennis Klein Endowed in perpetuity with a generous gift from The Clinton Family and all benefits listed below. Fund, Bruce and Martha Clinton Underwriter: $10,000 Marilyn A. Moore $555,885 Name recognition in all materials for one Donor: $250 Seraphic Fire Program, and all benefits An exclusive live recording Ruth† & Marvin Sackner listed below. of a 2018-2019 Season concert, and all benefits David L. Webb & W. Lynn McLaughlin Maestro Circle: $5,000 listed below. An exclusive post-concert reception with Cliff Whittle & Scott Cumming select Seraphic Fire artists, and all benefits Friend: $100 listed below. Name recognition in Seraphic Fire Magazine. Sponsor: $2,500 Invitation for two to a private season opening OVERALL reception, and all benefits listed below. Help ensure Seraphic Fire’s future through a bequest in your estate. ENDOWMENT FUND Seraphic Fire’s Legacy Society $702,815 recognizes our cherished friends who have included Seraphic Fire in their Founder’s Circle ($50,000+) Maestro Circle ($5,000+) Sustainer ($500) long-range financial plans with a gift BECOME A DONOR National Sponsor ($20,000+) Sponsor ($2,500+) Donor ($250) or trust arrangement. Underwriter ($10,000+) Patron ($1,000+) Friend ($100)

If you have made a bequest to Seraphic Fire, please let us know so Name in Program: DONATION TOTAL $ that you can be recognized as a member of Seraphic Fire’s Name: Phone: Legacy Society. Your gift will serve as Address: Email: an inspiration for others. THE SERAPHIC FIRE THE RUTH SACKNER ENDOWMENT FUND City/State/Zip: MEMORIAL FUND For more information about In support of the organization’s (PAYABLE TO SERAPHIC FIRE) A Board-restricted reserve fund established Payment Options: Check Charge my: Visa MasterCard American Express making a gift to Seraphic Fire long-term artistic goals in memory of Miami philanthropist and arts Credit Card Number: Expiration Date: through your will or trust, or if you $39,062 activist Ruth Sackner have already included Seraphic Fire Signature: in your plans, please contact $107,868 Patrick Quigley at 305.285.9060. Please complete this form and mail with payment to: Seraphic Fire, 2153 Coral Way, Suite 401, Miami, FL 33145 You may also call (305) 285-9060 or visit SeraphicFire.org

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Peter Burleigh Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Hennessey Alison McMahan Kathleen Blais Charles Sands* Lyndall Urquhart UNDERWRITER Nirupa Chaudhari & Steven Roper§ Johanna Hickman* Sandra Mullen Donald Edwin Broaddus in memory of Joyce Kaiser Adele & Leonardo Valencia* $10,000 - $19,999 Coral Gables Community Foundation Neill Hirst Elizabeth Newman & John Tillson§ & Jack Huizenga Joan Schaeffer* Robert & Ellen Vignola Rhett M. Del Campo§ Dr. Jeffrey Horstmyer & Prof. Tillie Fox Bernard Perron Barbara Ann Brown* in memory of Joyce Kaiser Thomas Wade Thomas C. Boyd§ Mr. Richard DiRenzo Timothy & Elizabeth Iszler Claudia Polzin Roy Cane Ellie & Bernie Schinder John & Christine Wahlquist§ Alicia Celorio, Do Unto Others Trust, Inc. & Rev. Charles Humphries§ Dr. Bruce Jackson John & Janet Preston Joanne Cann§ Hugh Schmidt* Clifford & Patricia Welles* Martha R. Davis & Alix Ritchie P.R. Farnsworth & J.C. Gill Dr. Fred Jonas§ Bill & Debbie Quigley John & Rebecca Cavanaugh Barbara Singer§ Paul Woehrle§ Funding Arts Broward Jim & Billie Hairston Evan Jones Veronika Rabitsch Lane Convey Ross & Evie Smith Robin Woodard Funding Arts Network Dr. Marilyn & Dr. Bernard Horowitz Carin Kahgan in memory Jeanne Ann & Charles Rigl William Cranshaw Sharon Smith Doug & Margaret Yoder Hutson-Wiley Echevarria Foundation*§ Dr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Jannach of Marc Kahgan Charles Sacher Mr. & Mrs. James Crosland Gene Sobczak*§ Nadja Zubrik* The Kirk Foundation§ Mr. & Mrs. George Knapp Linda Heller Kamm Ted & Margaret Sarafoglu Nellie Cummins* Katherine & Rick Socarras Key Biscayne Community Foundation, Inc. Miami Salon Group Joan Kasner Daniel & Ileana Sayre Martha N. Dare Bill & Jean Soman* Ana & Raul Marmol§ The James G. Pepper Fund of the Gloria Kline Margaret Seroppian Roberta David in memory of Joyce Kaiser * new donor City of Miami Beach Cultural Stonewall Community Foundation John Landers Marte V. & Paul Steven Singerman Andrew & Jane Dolkart Martin Sonkin* † deceased Affairs Program Jose Luis Pere & Trae Williamson George Lindemann Jim Sirbaugh Mary Sue Donohue John Sowell § GenS Society Miami-Dade County Tourist Peter & Audrey Pinney Alberto & Maggie Manrara Paul Smith & Michael Dennis Sarah Doss§ Harry Stigall Development Council Diane Rahman Dr. John Martin Lou Strennen Karen & Christopher Dudley§ Karen Thompson§ Miami-Dade County Youth Arts Luis Ramirez & Kimberly Thompson Dr. Leila Morris Szilagyi Family Foundation Todd Estabrook Enrichment Program§ Dr. Audrey Ross Betsy & Art Murphy Jeanann Testyon Alexis Eyler Edmundo Pérez-de Cobos & Dr. William W. Culbertson IV Kathleen Newell

32 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 33 | SEASON EIGHTEEN 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, 2019-2020 HOSTS & VOLUNTEERS 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, SERAPHIC FIRE HOSTS 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. Nirupa Chaudhari Pamela Garrison Amanda Crider Rev. Mary Beth Conroy You help make great art possible, for your own fulfillment and the enjoyment of those who might otherwise & Steven Roper Laura Calzolari Elizabeth Newman Nanci Mitchell miss out on one of life’s greatest pleasures. Thank you for this, and for your commitment to Seraphic Fire. Carin Kahgan Ana & Raul Marmol Kim Thompson Clinton Bush Janet Copeland Phyllis Parsons & Luis Ramirez Janet Shein Marilyn & Bernie Horowitz Karen Dudley Sara Solomon Maxine Long

VOLUNTEER ROSTER Rhett M. Del Campo, Executive Director Ellen Anderson Natalie Gonzalez Heather Osowiecki Jane Andersen Matt Gonzalez David Piriano Eugene Donaldson Sue Groskreutz Anita Platt Bruce Dory Elisa Halliley Chris Rudd Helen Franklin Jill Harrington Eric Runyan Joan and Paul Gluck Susan Mattes Kurt Schubert Kristian Toimil Lucia Minervini Barbara Soliday Miguel Gonzalez Anne Ober John Soliday

BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Dr. Thomas C. Boyd, Chair Rhett M. Del Campo, Executive Director Joanne N. Schulte, Founding Chair Finance & Operations Eric Rubio, General Operations Manager Alaina Fotiu-Wojtowicz, Immediate Past Chair Peter Buttler, Finance Consultant Robert “Bob” Brinker, Treasurer Diane Ashley, Secretary Artistic Administration VOLUNTEER William Jaume, Vice Chair Alexis Aimé, Artistic Operations Manager HIGHLIGHT Mark Trowbridge, Vice Chair Joey Quigley, Artistic Consultant Matthew Anderson Development EUGENE DONALDSON Daniel Copher vacant, Patron Services Manager In 2003 with excited anticipation Karen Fuller vacant, Grants Manager I experienced Seraphic Fire’s first Ana Marmol concert. This feeling has not left. As a Marketing Carolyn Pichardo choral singer myself, I deeply resonated Laura Shand, Claudia Polzin Advancement Operations Manager with ALL that Seraphic Fire was gifting us. Stepan Rudenko, Margaret “Peggy” Rolando Marketing Associate This convergence of talents, intention and Gene Sobczak, Adrian Villaraos Marketing & PR Consultant professional acumen just HAD to endure Education for our community. At once, I wanted to Edmundo Pérez-de Cobos, Director Emeritus Suzanne Floyd, Education Director contribute to its success. And so it was, Patrick Dupré Quigley, Artistic Director, ex-officio Catherine Bennett Walling, Education Liaison beginning with our first season at St. Jude. Rhett M. Del Campo, Executive Director, ex-officio Soon I discovered the joy of welcoming Molly Quinn, Artist Representative, ex-officio our choral music loving patrons. This role Douglas Dodson, Artist Representative, ex-officio of welcoming gives me a great personal satisfaction, especially knowing that the musical experience that ensues uplifts our human experience. 34 | VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 35 | SEASON EIGHTEEN WITHOUT WHOM... 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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