John Kennedy is SCU's Director of University Orchestra and New Music Ensemble. Kennedy has conducted orchestral, opera, ballet, and new music with leading organizations around the world, from the Lincoln Center Festival and New York City Ballet to the Singapore Symphony. He is Director of Orchestral Activities at Spoleto Festival USA, where he leads the festival's opera and orchestral programming, and has developed the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra to be the most competitive summer orchestra fellowship program in the U.S.Kennedy is also a noted composer, whose works have been commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera, Sarasota Opera, Charleston Symphony, and many others. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and Northwestern University, Kennedy led Essential Music (New York) and Santa Fe New Music before settling in the Bay Area in 2012.

Director of Jazz StudiesOriginally a native of the Philadelphia suburbs, Carl Schultz has performed and studied throughout the world.  Schultz has worked with modern jazz heavyweights Ray Vega, Art Lande, and Brad Goode as well as appearances with Jazz legends such as Mickey Roker, Billy Taylor, and Dave Brubeck.  During 2015 Schultz served as the Emerging Artist in Residence at Penn State's Altoona campus before embarking on three years of international touring with The Glenn Miller Orchestra.  Currently, Schultz resides in San Jose and teaches at Santa Clara University.

Director of Wind EnsembleDr. Anthony Rivera is the conductor and music director of the Santa Clara University Wind Ensemble. Prior to joining the faculty at SCU, Dr. Rivera completed graduate studies at the University of Maryland. At UMD he served as Assistant Conductor of the Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, Director of the Repertoire Orchestra, and a guest conductor of the new music ensemble, TEMPO. In addition to conducting, he was instructor of Woodwind Techniques and Pedagogy for music education majors. An active guest conductor and clinician, Dr. Rivera was a guest conductor of the Providence College Honor Band, guest lecturer for the Maryland Music Educators Association, and was selected as a chamber music conductor for the Temple University Conductors Symposium. For ten years, he performed with the Handel Choir of Baltimore and served on the artistic committee and as conducting fellow. Dr. Rivera has guest conducted The United States Coast Guard Band, presenting Armand Russell’s Theme and Fantasia at the Eastern Division College Band Directors National Association Conference. He conducted a semi-staged production of his arrangement of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte for wind instruments and vocal soloists with the UMD Wind Orchestra and Opera Studio. In 2018, Dr. Rivera will present at the College Band Directors National Association Western/Northwestern Division Conference. Dr. Rivera taught instrumental music for the Baltimore County Public Schools and currently teaches part time at San Jose High School. In an effort to promote new music and repertoire for young bands, he commissioned two pieces from composer David Faleris. “Of Chivalry and Valor,” recently won the 2014 National Band Association Merrill Jones Composition Contest. In 2012, Dr. Rivera was awarded Teacher of the Year from the Essex Chamber of Commerce and received citations for teaching excellence from the Maryland Senate and House of Representatives for creating a vibrant music program at Eastern Technical High School. Dr. Rivera holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in wind conducting from the University of Maryland, a Master of Music in wind conducting from the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Central Florida. His teachers and mentors are Michael Votta, Jr., James Ross, and Harlan Parker.

Director of Choral Activities Scot Hanna-Weir is the Director of Choral Activities at Santa Clara University and the Artistic Director of the Santa Clara Chorale. As a conductor, singer, pianist, and teacher, he is known for his insatiable desire for excellence and deep connection to the personal joy of music making. Hanna-Weir is an emerging scholar in the art and practice of conducting pedagogy. Prior to joining the faculty at Santa Clara University, Hanna-Weir conducted the All Souls Choir at All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC. As part of his graduate studies at the University of Maryland (UMD), he conducted the UMD Chamber Singers and Wind Orchestra, the UMD Concert Choir and Symphony Orchestra, the UMD Summer Chorus, and served as director of the UMD Women’s Chorus and University Chorale. Hanna-Weir also prepared choirs for the National Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Helmuth Rilling, the National Orchestral Institute under Asher Fisch, the Army Field Band and Soldier’s Chorus, and the Maryland Opera Studio. Comfortable in a variety of genres and styles, Hanna-Weir is a frequent collaborator as conductor, clinician, singer, and pianist with soloists, choirs, composers, and ensembles from a variety of backgrounds and traditions. At All Souls Church, he conducted the world premiere of All Souls, a cantata by award-winning composer Scott Gendel and regularly collaborated with artists from diverse musical traditions including members of the acclaimed vocal jazz group, Howard’s Afro Blue. At the University of Maryland, he conducted the University Chorale in a performance of Dominick Argento’s I hate and I love as part of an in residence festival celebrating the composer’s 85th birthday. Before working in Washington, Hanna-Weir directed the vocal music program at Tecumseh High School, where he led his choirs to consistent success at district and state choral festivals. Hanna-Weir holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in choral conducting from the University of Maryland, a Master of Music in choral conducting from the University of Wisconsin, and a Bachelor of Music in choral/general music education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.