W. Aaron Rice serves as Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church of Granada Hills in California's San Fernando Valley, where he has the opportunity to work with some of the premier session recording musicians in Los Angeles. 

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Dr. Rice maintains an active career as a multimedia composer for the screen and the concert stage, writing secular, religious, and collaborative compositions for choir, ensemble, and digital production. Rice is an international adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor. He holds his DMA in conducting and MM in music composition both from The University of Arizona, where he studied under Drs. Elizabeth Schauer, Pamela Decker, and Miguel Felipe. 

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Rice's journey Westward began in his hometown of Heflin, Alabama. He studied music and physics at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas before pursuing graduate study in Arizona.