Chapel Organist
Chad Fothergill serves as Chapel organist and as the primary organist for Duke Divinity School.
Mr. Fothergill completed degrees in organ performance at Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Iowa. He has performed and presented solo recitals, lecture-recitals, hymn festivals, plenaries, workshops, and papers at gatherings of, among others: the American Choral Directors Association; American Guild of Organists; Association of Lutheran Church Musicians; Haydn Society of North America; Institute of Liturgical Studies; National Worship Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran and Anglican Churches of Canada; North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music; Society for Christian Scholarship in Music; and congregations throughout the United States.
He is author of Sing with All the People of God: A Handbook for Church Musicians and has fulfilled commissions for articles, blogs, compositions, editorials, reviews, and reference entries for several worship resources and professional journals.
Since 2018 he has served on the faculty of the Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival, a four- week summer program for high school musicians, where he directs the Eugene and Mary Sukup Church Music Program.
Prior to his appointment at Duke, he was interim co-director of the Institute of Liturgical Studies at Valparaiso University, editor of CrossAccent: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and held visiting faculty appointments at Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Delaware. He previously served congregations in Iowa City, Philadelphia, New York City, and Minneapolis.