Biography

John A. Rice, a freelance writer and teacher devoted to the exploration of European music and its cultural context,  was born in Ithaca, New York in 1956. After studying music history under Daniel Heartz at the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1987) he taught at the University of Washington (1987–88), Colby College (1988–90), the University of Houston (1990–97), and the University of Texas at Austin (1999). More recently he has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh (2010–11) and the University of Michigan (2012–13). 

Rice's interests include the Renaissance motet, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century musical patronage, opera, Mozart, women and music, and galant schemata as a tool in the analysis of eighteenth-century music.  He has written many articles, reviews of books and musical editions, entries in musical encyclopedias and dictionaries, and seven books, one of which, Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera, received the Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society. His most recent book is Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance: The Emergence of a Musical Icon, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2022.

Rice has lectured widely in both the United States and Europe. He has served as president of the Mozart Society of America and of the Southwest Chapter of the AMS and as a director-at-large of the AMS.  An elected member of the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung in Salzburg, he has received grants from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society.

More information, and many publications and papers, available at Academia.edu

    Vancouver, 2011