[1] Born in 1956, he studied music history at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1987).
His research has yielded several books and over fifty articles.
[2] He curates the Youtube channel Settecentista.
He has received grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society.
Rice is a member of the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung in Salzburg and former president of the Mozart Society of America