Patricia Johnson Trice is the founder and music director of the Spiritual Renaissance Singers of Greensboro (SRSG). She holds the B. Mus. in Music Education from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Master of Science in Music Education from the University of Illinois, Master of Music in piano performance from UNC-G, and the Ph.D. in Music Education from the Florida State University.

She was a member of the faculty at North Carolina A&T State University for nine years before going to Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, from which she retired as Professor of Music after twenty-seven years of service. While there, she coordinated piano and choral studies for the music department, developed student, faculty, and artist recitals for the College, and was an active solo- and duo pianist. She co-founded the Spiritual Renaissance Singers of Tampa in 1989 to preserve and perpetuate through performance the unaccompanied choral arrangements of the African-American spiritual.

When she discovered very little reference material about the genre, Dr. Trice began a research project that culminated in several journal articles, conference presentations, and a book, Choral Arrangements of the African-American Spirituals, published by Greenwood Press in 1998. She conducts workshops in performance techniques of the unaccompanied arrangements of the spirituals as well as informances about the spiritual folk songs. She has arranged several spirituals for unaccompanied mixed ensemble as well as a suite for mezzo-soprano and piano and an unaccompanied duet for two mezzo-sopranos. Dr. Trice has also been an active church musician. She was interim choir director at Temple Terrace Presbyterian Church in Temple Terrace, Florida, and was organist, from 1984 to 1994, at First Presbyterian Church in Brandon, Florida where she wrote the specifications for the 15-rank Zimmer pipe organ installed and dedicated in 1991.

Currently, she is Coordinator of Music at Providence Baptist Church in Greensboro and director of the Sanctuary Choir.