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Phillip Thomas Raddin ("Phil") received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana where he was active in instrumental as well as vocal ensembles. After teaching choral music at Barbe High School in Lake Charles, Raddin attended Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas where he served as graduate conducting assistant to Dr. B.R. Henson. Upon completion of the Master of Music degree, Raddin taught at Huntsville High School for five years and at Sam Houston State as assistant director of choral activities for one year. Other studies for Raddin include master classes with Elizabeth Green and Charles Hirt and work on the doctoral level at the University of Arizona with Dr. Maurice Skones. Mr. Raddin has served as Director of Choirs at Klein (Texas) High School since the fall of 1989.
During this time, Klein choirs have won top honors at UIL contests and at major choral festivals, including performances in 1992 and 1996 at the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Convention and a first-place finish at the 1994 National High School Invitational Choral Festival in Washington, D.C. This ranking earned performances for the choir at the National Cathedral and the Kennedy Center. Selected as the featured choir for the Field Studies International Youth Choral Festival in April 1997, the choir performed an individual recital as well as a massed choir performance in Carnegie Hall. The Klein Chorale performed at the 1999 American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) national convention in Chicago with performances in Orchestra Hall and Medinah Temple. The Chorale garnered another first-place finish at the National Invitational Festival of Music in Washington, D.C. (April 2001) with a featured performance in Constitution Hall. In March 2003, the Klein Chorale performed again as the featured choir at the Field Studies Lincoln Center Festival in Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. The Klein Chorale has also sung at St. Patrick's Cathedral and during the morning services at Washington's National Cathedral and New York's St. John The Divine Cathedral.
Mr. Raddin has served TMEA Region IX as Region Choir Organizer and as Region Vocal Chairman. In addition to TMEA and ACDA, Raddin is professionally affiliated with the Texas Choral Directors Association, Texas Music Adjudicators Association and Pi Kappa Lambda. Phil and his wife, Pam, have two beautiful children, Matthew, age 10, and Bethany, age 7. Raddin has conducted church choirs for over twenty years beginning as an undergraduate college student in Louisiana. He is currently the Chancel Choir director at Spring Cypress Presbyterian Church in the Klein community.
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