Faculty

Tim Harris

Music Department Coordinator/Director of Bands

Timothy Harris is Director of Bands and Music Department Coordinator at Chabot College where he directs the Wind Symphony and Contemporary Music Ensemble.  In addition to his duties at Chabot, he teaches at San Jose State University. Professor Harris maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician in the region including appearances at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, California All-State Music Education Conference, CMEA Bay Section Conference, Texas Music Educators Association Convention, the Florida Citrus Bowl, and Carnegie Hall.  Professor Harris is published in Teaching Music Through Performance in Band as the author of research guides on the works of Larry Daehn, Yo Goto, Jan Van der Roost, Samuel Hazo, Christopher Tucker, and Frank Ticheli. He has been awarded the Gilbert T. Freitas Award for Achievement in Music Education by the CMEA Bay Section along with the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching at Chabot College. Harris holds memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, California Band Directors Association, California Association for Music Education, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity of America.

Email: tharris@chabotcollege.edu 
Office: 1111 | Phone: 510-723-6833

Michael Rosen

Music Recording Technology

Michael Rosen is a producer, engineer, studio owner, and adjunct professor in the Bay Area. 

Michael got introduced to the recording industry in Los Angeles through a chance encounter with an engineer who worked at Capital Studios. The engineer brought Michael into the studio where he watched Booker T and the MG’s record; the vibe was electric, and Michael knew he found a home. 

Michael's first paying gig was at The Automatt in San Francisco. He went from errand boy to assistant to engineer. He then moved to Fantasy Studios in Berkeley where he struck out on his own. 

Michael’s credit list features dozens of punk, rock, metal and (yes) even a country and new age record. He’s worked with Rancid, AFI, Less than Jake, Lars Fredrickson and the Bastards, Journey, Tesla, Todd Rundgren, The Old Firm Casuals, Papa Roach, Greg Kihn, Testament, Vicious Rumors, Death Angel, Violence, and dozens more. Michael also engineered the Grammy award-winning song Game of Love for Carlos Santana. 

Michael has developed curriculum in mixing, audio production and recording at San Francisco State University and Chabot College to help develop the next generation of producers and beat makers of the future.  

Michael is currently the owner and operator of East Bay Recorders in Oakland, California

Lucas Schwyter

Music Recording Technology

Young Kwang (Lucas) Schwyter is a working audio engineer, A/V technician, certified Pro Tools user and guitarist with over fifteen years’ experience, mainly focusing on classical guitar performance.  He received his BA from UC Berkeley where he studied musicology, computer music and performance. He then received an MM in Music Education from San Jose State University during which he taught music theory and received the award as most outstanding graduate student.

At Chabot College, he studied classical and jazz performance. He performed with artists such as Eric Marienthal, Bobby Shew, Terrence Brewer, Edgardo Cambon, and the group “Crossing 32nd Street”. During his bachelor studies, Lucas worked in recording studios around the Bay Area including Fantasy Studios and Skyline Studios, first as an intern but later as a recording/mixing engineer. Over the    years, he has worked with artists such as Bill Frisell, Nels Cline singers, Thomas Pridgen (The Memorials) and Sly and the Family Stone. In the last couple years, he helped form the podcast “East Bay Shortwave”, a non-profit podcast promoting local musicians.

During his BA studies, he also participated in experimental projects such as attempting to break the Guinness World Record for most glass bottles used in a musical performance and composing for UC Berkeley’s “Multimedia Orchestra”. Lucas also collaborated to create “Voices of a Fugue”, a VR musical performance with Polar Productions, which received critical acclaim from the Montreal International Animation Film Festival (Animaze) and the Seattle Transmedia Independent Film Festival. 

Lucas has over a decade experience with Ableton and Pro Tools, reaching the certification of “Expert Music” and “Expert Post” for Pro Tools which can be found on the AVID website . He has taught multiple courses such as Live Sound, Advanced Mixing, Post-Production and Sound Design on campuses around the Bay Area at San Jose State University, SAE Expressions College, and Diablo Valley College. He lives in San Lorenzo with his wife and son.