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Quigley Builds New Chamber Orchestra in Miami

Quigley Builds New Chamber Orchestra in Miami

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The Miami Herald
Sunday, October 5, 2008

Patrick Dupré Quigley has been performing music for as long as he can remember: in church, hymns lent gravitas to the ritual of Catholic mass; in school, piano lessons and choir practice filled his afternoons; on road trips to visit his grandparents as a child, songs made the hours pass quickly.

But it wasn't until his sophomore year at the University of Notre Dame, after changing majors from chemical engineering to political science and, finally, to music, that Quigley decided to make music his life's work.

''It was something that I was realizing more and more that I simply couldn't live without,'' says Quigley, founder of Miami's professional chamber choir, Seraphic Fire. ``Could I be happy doing something other than music? Maybe, but probably not.''