Patricia J. Trice (1939- ) graduated from Oberlin College in 1959, received a master's in music education from Illinois in 1960, a master's in piano performance from The University of North Carolina (UNCG) in 1968, and a PhD from Florida State. She is founder and director of the Spiritual Renaissance Singers of Greensboro. For nine years, Trice was a member of the music faculty of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina and a member of the music faculty of Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, for twenty-seven years. Trice remembers the importance of education in her family; attending Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, to study music; and receiving funds from the Pearsall Plan, which was used by North Carolina during the segregated 1950s to send African American students to study out of state. She discusses her music degrees and attending various colleges and universities. Trice recalls being a graduate student at UNCG in the 1960s but not being very involved with campus life except to attend classes. She talks about publishing her book Choral Arrangements of the African-American Spirituals and founding the Spiritual Renaissance Singers of Greensboro.
