Member
Contact Information
eric.rice@uconn.eduhttps://music.uconn.edu/person/eric-rice/
Location
Hampton, Connecticut
Early Music Skills & Interests
ConductorEarly Music Affiliations
Conductor, Editor, Music/Artistic Director, Musicologist, Performer, Writer
Biography
Musicologist and conductor Eric Rice is Professor of Music at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and served as Head of the Department of Music there from 2014 to 2024. His research falls broadly into two categories: representations of cultures from outside Europe in notated music of the Western tradition and the relationship of liturgical music to architecture, politics, and secular music. He engages in multimodal projects involving performance, musicological research, and emerging technology to understand and teach the musical cultures and performance practices of medieval and Early Modern Europe and its relationship to the Global Early Modern. He directs Ensemble Origo, which engages in applied musicology by performing his reconstructions of music’s original contexts, and which critics have praised for its “aesthetically…top-notch” performances that “succeed[] in resurrecting the past in a uniquely ear-opening way.” He is the author of Music and Ritual at Charlemagne’s Marienkirche in Aachen, co-editor of Young Choristers, 650-1700, and contributor to numerous musicological journals. He teaches courses in music history and early notation, and he introduces students to historically informed performance practices and unjustly neglected repertoire as director of the UConn Collegium Musicum. He has led a unique summer experiential learning program combining music history and performance in Strasbourg, France, three times, and has led or co-led numerous ensemble tours to Europe and Latin America. Rice was awarded the 2019 Thomas Binkley Award, which is given by Early Music America for excellence in performance and scholarship by the director of a university early music ensemble.
