Paul Rardin

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Paul Rardin is associate director of choirs at the University of Michigan, where he teaches undergraduate conducting and conducts the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club and University Choir. He previously taught at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, where for twelve years he served as director of choirs. Rardin's choruses have earned regional and national acclaim, and have performed in such venues as Boston Symphony Hall, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Washington National Cathedral, Duke University Chapel, The Cathedral of St. Philip (Atlanta, GA), Riverside Church (New York, NY), and Immaculate Conception (San Diego, CA). The Towson University Chorale performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2002 and 2004.

Rardin is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Michigan, where he received the M.M. in composition and the D.M.A. in conducting. He has studied conducting with Theodore Morrison, Jerry Blackstone, and Gustav Meier, and composition with Leslie Bassett, George Wilson, and Robert Suderburg. He has also participated in master classes with Helmuth Rilling, Charles Bruffy, and Dale Warland. Rardin has served as guest conductor for state and regional high school choral festivals in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Oregon. He has presented clinics for state, regional and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, as well as the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, Virginia Music Educators Association, and numerous county and city school systems in Maryland.

Rardin is also a published arranger, composer, and author. His settings of spirituals and folk songs are published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing. His articles, many on the topic of contemporary music, have appeared in the ACDA publications Choral Journal, Troubadour, and Bel Canto.