Robert Johnson

Dr. Robert Johnson serves both the Los Rios and Sierra Community College Districts providing instruction in the areas of entertainment industry, commercial music production, live sound reinforcement, studio recording techniques, and composition with electronic media.

Dr. Johnson is a Northern California foothill native with a well-established history, addressing the educational needs of music students here in the Sacramento Valley.

Within the California State University system, he completed a bachelor’s degree in Recording Arts at CSU, Chico in 1994, followed by a master of management in Music Education at CSU, Sacramento in 2003. In 2017, he returned to CSUS to complete his doctorate in Educational Leadership.

He also remains active in curriculum development and program leadership, serving as lead developer and Career Technical Education representative for the Sierra College Media and Public Event Production certificate program.

In the private sector, Dr. Johnson is owner-operator of Sacramento-based Sierra Professional Audio & Video Technologies, providing clients with equipment rentals, services in commercial/residential systems design and integration, public event audio/video technical support, musical/theatrical sound design and reinforcement, on-location contemporary and classical recording, documentation recording, audio restoration/archiving, and forensic audio analysis. His client list includes the California School-Age Consortium, Cal Expo, Sacramento Food Bank, New York Life, Northern California PGA, El Dorado Musical Theatre, Broadway @Sierra, Chamber Music Alive, the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, NPR, and the White House Press Core.