Stephen Rice
British choral conductor Stephen Rice is the founder and director of the Brabant Ensemble, a choral group specializing in sacred music of the middle 16th century. Rice has a large catalog of recordings in this field, has conducted oratorio and opera, and is also a widely published scholar.
Rice began his musical career as a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge. He also studied at Oxford University, where he received a doctorate in 2004 after writing a dissertation on the five-part motets of composer Nicolas Gombert. By that time, Rice had already founded the Brabant Ensemble, a small choral group devoted to the choral music of the Flemish High Renaissance, and made it into a well-established group. That year, the Brabant Ensemble, with Rice conducting, made its debut on the Signum Classics label with a recording of music by Clemens non Papa. Two years later, Rice and the Ensemble moved to Hyperion for the album Thomas Crecquillon: Mort m'a privé. Rice has continued to record for Hyperion, issuing one or two albums almost annually through the early 2020s. He has remained active as a scholar, writing articles about Clemens non Papa, Cristóbal de Morales, and Josquin Desprez, among others.
Rice is also active in fields other than Renaissance choral music. From 2000 to 2005, he served as director of the New Chamber Opera Studio, and from 2003 to 2011, he was director of music at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Oxford, where he performed a variety of choral works. From 2008 to 2011, Rice held a three-year Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and located at the University of Southampton. With the Brabant Ensemble, he has toured countries across western Europe and as far afield as Slovenia, making his debut at London's Wigmore Hall in 2016. In 2022, Rice and the Brabant Ensemble released a recording of the Missa Faulte d'argent and motets by Jean Mouton; by that time, Rice's catalog comprised more than 20 albums.
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