University of Michigan Men's Glee Club

	Paul Rardin, director Paul Rardin is associate director of choirs at the University of Michigan, where he teaches undergraduate conducting and conducts the 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. Spring Tours: Northwest (2006), Midwest (2007), Spain (2008) Highlights: Intercollegiate Men's Choruses National Seminar, Washington, DC (2008) Recordings: Tux, Tails, & Holly (2007)
FORMER CONDUCTORS
	Reed Criddle, assistant conductor Originally from Oakland, California, Reed Criddle is a doctoral student in Conducting at the University of Michigan, under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Blackstone. He has Bachelors of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees in Music (Vocal Performance), Chinese, and East Asian Studies from Stanford University. Mr. Criddle has completed his Masters of Music from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied conducting with Dr. William Weinert and Brad Lubman, and voice with Karen Holvik. At Eastman, he was awarded the Certificate in Community and College Teaching for founding and instructing a conducting course at the Eastman Community Music School. In 2007, he was selected to study conducting with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival. Reed Criddle has directed the Eastman Repertory Singers, the Taiwanese Choral Society of Rochester, the Rochester Mormon Choir, and was Minister of Music at the United Methodist Church of North Chili. Additionally, he has served as assistant conductor of the Eastman Women’s Chorus and the Stanford Chamber Chorale. He is currently the assistant director of the world-renowned University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club, chorusmaster of the University of Michigan Opera Chorus, and is in his second season as director of the Livingston County Chorale in Brighton, Michigan. His scholarly articles ranging in topics from ethnomusicology to choral methods and contemporary music have been published in the Choral Journal and Asian Music.
FORMER ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS
FORMER ACCOMPANISTS