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The American conductor, Patrick Dupré Quigley, obtained his Bacheloer of Music degree from the University of Notre Dame; and his Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. He also studied at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy’s Fundraising School.
Patrick Dupré Quigley is the Founder and Artistic Director of Seraphic Fire, and is a regular guest conductor with the nation’s top orchestras. Recent guest conducting highlights include the W.A. Mozart's Requiem with The Cleveland Orchestra; George Frideric Handel, J.S. Bach, Ligeti and Luciano Berio with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; Haydn and Mozart with the Utah Symphony Orchestra; and Reich’s Desert Music with the New World Symphony. In 2019-2020 season, he debuted with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in J.S. Bach and Purcell and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Recent and upcoming projects include a return to Chicago’s Music of the Baroque in J.S. Bach and music from Rameau’s Castor et Pollux; G.F. Handel's Messiah in debuts with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Kansas City Symphony (December 2021); and G.F. Handel's chamber opera Acis and Galatea with his indie-classical ensemble, Seraphic Fire (April 2019).
Patrick Dupré Quigley has long championed rising vocal and instrumental concert artists, collaborating with Matt Albert, Dashon Burton, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Christian Van Horn, Bryan Hymel, Reginald Mobley, Kathryn Mueller, Margot Rood, the Spektral Quartet, Lauren Snouffer, Zachary Wilder, and Tamara Wilson. He has commissioned and/or premiered works by composers Christopher Theofanidis, Nico Muhly, Alvaro Bermudez, Ileana Perez Velasquez, Susan Labarr, Sidney Guillaume, Shawn Crouch, James Kallembach, among others.
Patrick Dupre Quigley founded Seraphic Fire in 2002 in Miami, Florida. The ensembles’ repertoire spans from Hildegard of Bingen to Steve Reich. Seraphic Fire has grown to annually present forty-five concerts over eight subscription programs. The organization’s educational outreach programs (Seraphic Fire Youth Initiative; StudentAccess; Seraphic Fire-UCLA Emerging Artist Program; the Professional Choral Institute at the Aspen Music Festival) reach thousands of students, from elementary to graduate school. There recording catalog contains 16 titles; two are recipients of GRAMMY® nominations. Seraphic Fire enjoys a residency at the Aspen Music Festival, where Quigley teaches and conducts. |
