Paul Rardin is Associate Director of Choirs at the University of Michigan, where he teaches undergraduate conducting and conducts the Men's Glee Club, University Choir, and Michigan Youth Chamber Singers. He previously taught at Towson University in Towson, Maryland where, for twelve years, he served as Director of Choirs. Rardin's choirs have appeared with the Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Rardin is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Michigan, where he received the MM in composition and the DMA in conducting.

Rardin has served as a guest conductor for all-state choirs in nine states, and in 2009 conducted the MENC All-Eastern Division High School Chorus. He has presented clinics for state, regional, and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association. An active member of MSVMA, he has regularly presented at the Summer Workshop and adjudicated state festivals. His settings 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, and Bella Voce.

Rardin lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, Sandy.