Eric Styles is the lay rector of Carroll Hall, an undergraduate residential community at the University of Notre Dame.  He published in America, Church Life Journal, Liturgy Training Publications, and U.S. Catholic.  Eric is a collaborator with Afro House, a Baltimore based music driven performance art ensemble and a former Jesuit scholastic trained in Ignatian spiritual direction.

Born and raised in Detroit Michigan, Eric Rutherford is an especially gifted singer, keyboardist, songwriter composer and educator with a natural thirst for music. For years he has trained in jazz, gospel, and pop styles which all come together to help inform his sound which is not only versatile and broad, but masterful. Having started learning piano and organ at age 9, Eric's talents and love for music were honed and developed in church, and continued to be until he went on to formally study music at Columbia College Chicago - there he obtained a Bachelor of Music Degree. Eric also had the opportunity to study music internationally at Conservatorío Dí Pescara in Abruzzo Italy and Popakademie Baden-Wüttemburg in Mannheim Germany.

Performing professionally since age 19, Rutherford has had the pleasure to share his musicianship on many stages and venues throughout the Midwest from the historic Chicago Theatre, to churches and places of worship, to the House of Blues and beyond. His career has led him to perform with such Grammy Award winning artists as Paula Cole, Diane Warren, and Cory Henry. Eric Rutherford is a highly dedicated artist and musician. He is always eager to share his gifts in a way that both honors God and uplifts humanity one note at a time.