Karl Schrock is a musician of broad training and experience.

In a quarter-century at the WMU School of Music Dr. Schrock taught organ, harpsichord, accompanying, keyboard for choral conductors, instrumental and mixed ensembles, choral literature, tonal theory, aural skills, figured bass, form and analysis, and analysis for conductors, and served as rehearsal accompanist/assistant conductor of choral ensembles. He also has served as visiting faculty at the University of Michigan and previously taught music at Kalamazoo College and the Washington School of Ballet.

Karl has performed in Europe and South America, given European and American premieres and made commercial recordings at the invitation of composers Emmanuel Dubois and Theo Morrison, and been heard nationally on Pipedreams. As collaborative musician, Karl has performed on continuo and large organ, harpsichord, harmonium, and piano with professional orchestras and choral ensembles, university orchestras and symphonic bands, community and church choirs, and vocal and instrumental soloists.

As organ consultant, he helped design and inaugurate one of the largest and finest mechanical-action instruments in Michigan: the 54-stop Létourneau Opus 55 at First Baptist of Kalamazoo featured in the December 1998 issue of The American Organist, and while Music Minister at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he inaugurated a new five-manual, 179-stop organ that was the cover feature of The American Organist for November 2004.

Karl served five terms as Dean of the Southwest Michigan Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and his professional work was featured in the April 2003 issue of Encore magazine.