Patrick Dupré Quigley

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 1, 1977, conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley created Seraphic Fire in Miami during 2002 and has continued to serve as its artistic director ever since. He also directs the Firebird Chamber Orchestra while leading performances with additional ensembles and maintaining an active role in music education.

Among his guest appearances, Quigley has directed the Cleveland Orchestra in Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626, the San Francisco Symphony in selections by Handel, Bach, Ligeti, and Berio, and both the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony in Handel's Messiah, HWV 56. He maintains a long-term residency at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he frequently leads Seraphic Fire and other ensembles while also teaching. In Miami and beyond, he and the choir partner with Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, and the Herb Alpert School of Music at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Quigley has promoted contemporary scores by featuring instrumentalists experienced in new music and by commissioning pieces from composers such as Nico Muhly, Christopher Theofanidis, and Ileana Perez Velazquez. Under his direction, Seraphic Fire has released fifteen recordings beginning with Beginnings in 2005; the catalog spans repertory from Hildegard of Bingen to present-day works. A standout project, the group's account of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 from 2013, benefited from an extensive online promotional effort that propelled the album to the top of a streaming platform's classical chart and, briefly, above a concurrent Lady Gaga release on the service's overall ranking.

Quigley and Seraphic Fire have earned two Grammy nominations, one in Best Choral Performance for Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem and another in Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for A Seraphic Fire Christmas. In 2021 they issued the first recording of Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum. All of their projects appear on the Seraphic Fire Media or SFM imprint, distributed by Naxos.