Music - Faculty Biographies - Paul McGovern

Paul McGovern, director of the UMF Community Chorus has extensive experience as a choir director and music educator. Currently, he is a full-time music teacher at Portland High School where he directs ensembles and teaches piano, guitar and general music classes. He has taught and directed choirs at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, The Crane School of Music at SUNY-Potsdam, and Georgia Southern University. McGovern also serves as music director for the Granite State Choral Society in Rochester, N.H. In the summer, he serves as chorus master for the Portland Opera Repertory Theatre. McGovern received his undergraduate degree from Queens College/CUNY and his master’s and doctoral degrees in choral conducting from Indiana University. He has studied conducting with Robert Porco, Jan Harrington and Thomas Dunn. Before graduate school, McGovern taught music for six years in public schools in the Philadelphia, Penn. area.