CONNECTICUT EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY
Box 329, New London, Connecticut, 06320

CEMS WELCOMES NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Eric Rice is an active scholar, performer, and advocate of early music.
He serves as Assistant Professor of Music History and Director of the Collegium Musicum at the University of Connecticut, Storrs; as music director and tenor in the Boston-based period vocal ensemble Exsultemus; and as artistic director of the Connecticut Early Music Festival. He holds a doctorate in musicology and a certificate in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Columbia University. A specialist in music of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, his scholarship is focused primarily on music of the Western liturgy and its relationship to architecture, politics, and secular music. Exsultemus has performed his liturgical reconstructions to great acclaim in the U.S., Belgium, and Germany, and his solo performances of plainchant have been hailed as “expertly rendered” by Goldberg Magazine.