Brad Schultz

Brad Schultz, Piano instructor 01
Position
Piano
Office
Forsyth Hall, Room 139

Dr. Brad Schultz teaches music courses for the Music and Lifelong Learning departments at Santa Rosa Junior College. 

Brad is also the director of music at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Tiburon where he oversees the music program, directs the choir, plays the organ, and directs a concert series. Brad previously served United Methodist, Unitarian Universalist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian churches in Oregon, Iowa, Minnesota, Idaho, and Georgia. He holds a Ph.D in Musicology with a certificate in Historical Performance Practice from the University of Oregon. His dissertation focuses on the keyboard works of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, a composer active in Amsterdam in the early seventeenth century, through lenses of embodied cognition, rhetoric, and organology (the study of musical instruments). 

Brad is also the Artistic Director of the 90-voice Contra Costa Chorale, a community-based ensemble in the East Bay. He lectures on music topics at the Belvedere-Tiburon Public Library and performs frequently as an organ recitalist, collaborative keyboardist and continuo player, including the ongoing performing duo "Tromborgan," a duo with trombonist Benjamin Yates dedicated to exploring and commissioning new works for organ and trombone duo. 

Brad also teaches online music courses for the University of Oregon. He previously served on the music faculty of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he taught music fundamentals courses, organ lessons, piano, and music history. He received a Master's of Sacred Music degree in organ performance from Emory University in Atlanta GA and a Bachelor's degree in tuba performance from Luther College.