Dr. Paul Rardin
Chair, Choral Activities
Associate Professor
Departments:
Choral Activities
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M.M.: Conducting and Composition, University of Michigan
D.M.A.: Conducing, University of MichiganPaul Rardin joined the faculty of Temple University as director of choral activities in 2011. He conducts the Concert Choir, teaches graduate conducting, and oversees the six-choir program at Temple’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. He previously taught at the University of Michigan and Towson University, where his choirs appeared with the Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Under his direction the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club performed at the 2010 American Choral Directors Central Division Convention.
Rardin has served as a guest conductor for all-state choirs in twelve states, for divisional honor choirs for the ACDA and Music Educators National Conference, and for Manhattan Concert Productions at Lincoln Center. He has presented clinics for state, regional, and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association. His engagements for 2012-2013 include the Delaware All-State Mixed Chorus, Illinois ACDA SATB Adult Honor Choir, Pennsylvania District 11 High School Chorus, ACDA Maryland/DC Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Choral Conference, and Texas Choral Directors Association Convention.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 conducting master classes with Helmuth Rilling, Charles Bruffy, and Dale Warland. His arrangements of spirituals and folk songs are published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and his articles, many on the topic of contemporary music, have appeared in the ACDA publications Choral Journal, Troubadour, Resound, and Bel Canto.
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Choral Compositions 2009 Sound Off TTBB, percussion Santa Barbara Music Publishing 2007 My Spirit Is Uncaged SATB, piano Santa Barbara Music Publishing Choral Arrangements 2003 Some of These Days SSA Santa Barbara Music Publishing 2002 I’m A-Rollin’ SATB, piano Santa Barbara Music Publishing 2000 Walk in Jerusalem SATB, piano Santa Barbara Music Publishing 1998 Telemarketing Blues SSA, piano Santa Barbara Music Publishing 1996 Hol’ You Han’ TTBB, piano Santa Barbara Music Publishing Back to Ethiopia TTBB, piano Santa Barbara Music Publishing Articles
2008 “Discovering Stockhausen Choral: A Compelling Personal Statement” Resound (ACDA, Central Division)
2007 Critical Analysis: Rardin, arr., I’m a-Rollin’ in Buchanan, Heather and Matthew Mehaffey, eds. 2007. Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 2. Chicago; GIA Publications.
2004 “Quality Repertoire for College/University Choirs,” Choral Journal (ACDA)
2002 “Assessing Excellence in Repertoire: An Adjudication Sheet for Quality in Choral Compositions,” Choral Journal (ACDA)
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2012
Guest Conductor, Illinois ACDA SATB Adult Honor Choir, Naperville, IL2013
Guest Conductor, Pennsylvania District 11 High School Chorus, Horsham, PAGuest Conductor, Delaware All-State High School Mixed Choir
Clinician, ACDA Maryland-DC Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Choral Conference, College Park, MD
Headline Clinician and Directors’ Choir Conductor, Texas Choral Directors Association, San Antonio, TX
2014
Guest Conductor, Florida All-State Mixed Chorus, Tampa, FLGuest Conductor, Arkansas All-State Male Chorus, Hot Springs, AR
