Brad is our Minister of Music. Contact Brad with questions about our music program or pipe organ, joining the choir, or scheduling a recording session in our sanctuary.
Dr. Brad Schultz joined the staff at St. Stephen's in July 2023 having previously served United Methodist, Unitarian Universalist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian congregations in Oregon, Iowa, Minnesota, Idaho, and Georgia. He holds a Ph.D in Musicology 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 teaches online music courses for the University of Oregon and previously served on the faculty of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He performs regularly as an organist, collaborative keyboardist and continuo player, and conductor, and enjoys making music with other musicians in the Bay Area. He received a Master's of Sacred Music degree in organ performance from Emory University and Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, GA, and a Bachelor's degree in tuba performance from Luther College. He lives in Tiburon with his husband Matt, a digital advertising consultant.