Chad Fothergill joined the Gustavus faculty in the fall of 2009 as Cantor at Christ Chapel and Visiting Instructor in the Department of Music. In addition to providing and scheduling the musical leadership for liturgies in Christ Chapel, he also teaches organ and core academic music courses including ear training, music theory, and music history.

Mr. Fothergill holds a Master of Arts degree in Organ Performance from the University of Iowa where he studied with Delbert Disselhorst, and a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Gustavus Adolphus College where he studied organ with David Fienen, choral conducting with Gregory Aune, and was the 2005–06 Department of Music Presser Scholar. In August 2008 he began doctoral coursework in Musicology at the University of Iowa while serving as Organist at First Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, and as Dean of the University of Iowa Chapter of the American Guild of Organists from 2007–09. He has previously taught on the staffs of both the Iowa Summer Music Camps (2007–09) and the Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival (2007–08, 2010).

Mr. Fothergill is a member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM) and the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and presently serves as Education Chair for the Sioux Trails Chapter of the AGO and as Vice President for Region III of the ALCM.

Present research interests include the teaching of church music and liturgy, music of the Spanish Renaissance, and the culture surrounding organ music and improvisation in German lands during the seventeenth century. He is also preparing an edition of Gerhard Krapf’s (1924–2008) previously unpublished “Choral Settings of the Chorales in J. S. Bach’s Clavierübung III.”