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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.
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Mark Marotto, assistant conductor
Mark Marotto is a first-year doctoral student in choral conducting. Prior to coming to Michigan, Mark has been working as a musician, teacher and researcher in Switzerland. Most recently, he was conductor
of the University Choir of Bern, the Lausanne Youth Choir and “Le Louverain,” a weeklong choral retreat in the Swiss mountains. In Summer 2007, Mark taught the music appreciation course for the Pepperdine University programme in Lausanne.
Originally from New Jersey, he did his undergraduate degree in music at Duke University. After graduating, he worked as a research associate at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He then obtained a postgraduate diploma in choral conducting from the Conservatoire de Fribourg, Switzerland and his master degree in orchestral conducting from the National Music University of Bucharest, Romania. Mark has participated in masterclasses with conductors including Kurt Masur and George Pehlivanian.
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David Zobel, pianist
Originally from California, David Aro Zobel is a conductor and pianist who now makes his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
A musician of eclectic tastes, Mr. Zobel has appeared throughout the nation as a soloist, collaborator, conductor,
and singer. Mr. Zobel received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he
studied piano with Dr. Charles Asche and Choral Conducting with Michel Marc Gervias, and received his graduate
degree from the University of Michigan, where he studied piano performance with Phillip Bush. Mr. Zobel appears
regularly with area ensembles including the Ann Arbor and Saginaw Bay Symphonies, and is substitute pianist for the
New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. As a soloist, Mr. Zobel has won prizes in national competitions,
including a gold medal from the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation, and won the fi rst prize in the Adrian Boyer
Concerto Competition. Mr. Zobel is a prolifi c collaborator, having appeared in over 30 recitals as an accompanist
last season alone, while holding the position of chorus master and coach of the Toledo Opera. Mr. Zobel has also
coached and performed opera productions for the Great Lakes Lyric Opera Company, and for the Bay View Festival Opera.
Mr. Zobel is currently chorus master and director of music at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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