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Seraphic Fire is a Grammy-nominated professional classical vocal ensemble based in Miami, Florida. Founded in 2002 by Patrick Dupré Quigley and Joanne N. Schulte at the Church of the Epiphany in South Miami, Florida, the ensemble is currently led by Co-Founder and Artistic Director Patrick Dupré Quigley and Executive Director, Dr. Danny M. Yanez, CFRE. Seraphic Fire is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that presents high-quality performances of historically significant and underperformed music, advances the art through the professional development of its musicians, and promotes community connectivity through youth musical education. While headquartered in Miami, Seraphic Fire maintains a regular schedule of concerts throughout South Florida, with performances in Coral Gables, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Naples, and Boca Raton, and also tours nationally. Seraphic Fire's repertoire includes Gregorian chants, Baroque masterpieces, works by Mahler, and newly commissioned works by American composers. Two of the ensemble's recordings, Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem and A Seraphic Fire Christmas were nominated for the 2012 Grammy awards, making Seraphic Fire the only choral ensemble in North or South America to be nominated that year, and the only classical ensemble in the world to be nominated for two separate projects. The ensemble's September 2014 release, Reincarnations: A Century of American Choral Music, placed No. 6 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart and the ensemble's Grammy-nominated recording of Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart. Seraphic Fire has a partnership with Naxos of America for the distribution of its media. The group maintains a regular schedule of concerts throughout South Florida and also tours nationally. Seraphic Fire takes its name from a line in William Billings’ 18th-century hymn, Invocation, which calls upon the divine to “fill us with Seraphic Fire”—a phrase that captures the ensemble’s passion for transcendent musical expression.

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