Brad Schultz | Profiles

Spring 2025

Section 4798 of LL581
Musical Experience -- : Feb 11 - May 20 2025
Class focuses on Music, the Brain and Aging. Attempts to organize sound have existed since at least the Middle Paleolithic and that across all epochs and cultures, humans have used music as a means of expression, as a tool to think with, and as an agent for healing Interest has greatly expanded to account for music’s cognitive connections, or the way music can alter our body composition for the better. This class explores the relationship between music (both producing and consuming) and our cognitive processes as we age. Previous musical experience is not necessary.

Section 4800 of LL581
Musical Experience -- : Jan 14 - May 20 2025
Class focuses on Piano Reboot Does the piano in the corner of your living room gather more dust than tunes? Did you start piano lessons at some point, but struggle to stay motivated? Have you always wanted to learn, but never had the opportunity? This is a hands-on class in a group-learning format to get back into the habit, or get the habit started. We will build skills to get playing quickly, and at a level appropriate to your ability. We will focus on practice methods, healthy playing technique and touch, and repertoire in a wide variety of styles. A keyboard instrument to practice on outside of class is helpful, but not essential.

Section 5720 of MUSCP11A
Class Piano 1 -- : Jan 14 - May 15 2025
This section meets in person on Tuesdays with the option for students to attend synchronously online. The meetings on Thursday will be held synchronously online.

Section 8788 of MUSCP11B
Class Piano 2 -- : Jan 14 - May 15 2025
This section meets in person on Tuesdays with the option for students to attend synchronously online. The meetings on Thursday will be held synchronously online.

Section 8789 of MUSCP11C
Class Piano 3 -- : Jan 14 - May 15 2025
This section meets in person on Tuesdays with the option for students to attend synchronously online. The meetings on Thursday will be held synchronously online.

Fall 2024

Section 0453 of MUSCP11A
Class Piano 1 -- : Sep 17 - Dec 12 2024

Section 1801 of MUSCP11D
Class Piano 4 -- : Sep 17 - Dec 12 2024

Section 3258 of MUSCP11B
Class Piano 2 -- : Sep 17 - Dec 12 2024

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.

Professional Areas of Interest

Music, the Brain, and Aging

Keyboard Organology

Choral Conducting, Pedagogy, and Literature