Dr. Russell E. Schulz
Associate Professor of Church Music, Organist and Choirmaster
512.472.4133 ext 337
Professor Schulz's work focuses on sacred music, especially liturgical music and hymnody, but his real job, he says, is to keep music in the air at Seminary of the Southwest. He chaired the music committee of The Hymnal 1982 and was tapped by Yale to co-edit its New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools. Formerly Dean of the Evergreen (Colorado) Music Conference for many years and past President of the Hymn Society of the U.S. and Canada, he has made presentations on hymnody in the U.S. and in Europe, including an American hymn festival in Westminster Abbey. To further his interest in folkloric ("intuitive") music, he has interviewed people in the former Communist countries, as well as Copts in Egypt and all sorts of faithful in India, Mexico and Brazil, about how religious music speaks to ordinary folks. Professor Schulz, who has taught at the seminary since 1974, is composer of about 250 published works.
B.Mus., Valparaiso University. M.Mus., Union Theological Seminary. D.M.A., University of Texas.
