South Florida Classical Review

Patrick Dupre Quigley conducts Seraphic Fire in Bach’s Motets November 13-16.

Seraphic Fire will present seven programs in the 2025-2026 season. Primarily returning to its roots as an a cappella choir, the superb Miami-based chamber chorus highlights unaccompanied and small continuo supported scores throughout the season.

Associate conductor James K. Bass commences the season October 9-12 with “Best of Seraphic Fire” an audience-curated program that will feature favorites from previous seasons. Among the featured works are Frank Ticheli’s” Earth Song,”” Alvaro Bermudez’s” Padre Nuestro” and Morten Lauridsen’s masterpiece “O Magnum Mysterium.

Artistic director Patrick Quigley makes his first appearances of the season November 13-16 with “Bach Motets,” repeating six of the Baroque master’s pathbreaking works December 6-16 brings a fresh spin on the organization’s popular Christmas program. Bass leads “Twas the Night Before Christmas”, which will include a reading of Mark Clement Moore’s poem “A Visit from St. Nicolas” as well as familiar carols and songs for the holiday.

Guest conductor Jason Max Ferdinand, director of the choral program at the University of Maryland and founder of the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers, takes charge for “Gospel” January 15-18, 2026. The iconic standards include “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” and “Amazing Grace” are among the concert’s overview of the gospel tradition. 

Quigley returns February 19-22 for “American Folk,” which spans the Americana folk music spectrum from Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” to Ingram Marshall’s Hymnodic Delays. Arianne Abella, choral director at Amherst College, makes her Seraphic Fire debut March 19-22 with “Candlelight,” a concert of water and nature themed pieces, lit entirely by candlelight. 

Quigley concludes the season with “Surround Sound,” a program of music from the Basilica of San Marco in Venice , presented as an immersive experience with the audience surrounded by the choral forces.

Performances will take place at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Miami; St. Philip’s Episcopal Church and Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables; Miami Beach Community Church; All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale; St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church in Boca Raton; Moorings Presbyterian Church in Naples; and the Moss Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay.

 Information and tickets are available at seraphicfire.org.

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