Eric Rice, tenor

Eric Rice, tenor, holds degrees in musicology and Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Columbia University and is assistant professor of music history at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. A specialist in music of the late
Middle Ages and Renaissance, his scholarship is focused on music of the Western liturgy and its relationship to architecture, politics, and secular music. He has also published on representation of foreign cultures in Western art music in the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. As a singer, he has performed with the Capella Alamire in Cambridge, MA, the Choir of the Church of Saint Ignatius of Antioch in New York, the Bach Society of Columbia University, and the Aachener Domchor in Aachen, Germany. His teachers include Marcy Lindheimer in New York and Frank Kelley in Boston. Mr. Rice has conducted the Collegium Musicum of Columbia University and the Brandeis University Chamber Choir, and he currently directs the University of Connecticut Collegium Musicum. Dr. Rice was most recently named Artistic Director of the Connecticut Early Music Festival.