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 En...