Chad Fothergill joined the Gustavus faculty in the fall of 2009 as Cantor at Christ Chapel and Visiting Instructor. In addition to providing musical leadership for weekly and Sunday services in Christ Chapel, he also teaches organ and music theory.

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, serving as a Teaching Assistant for the Department of Musicology, Research Assistant for the Organ Department, and as Organist at First Presbyterian Church, Iowa City. He also served as Dean of the University of Iowa Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (2007-09), and has taught on the staffs of both the Iowa Summer Music Camps (2006-09) and the Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival (2007-08, 2010).

Present research interests include the teaching of service playing and liturgical music, 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 He is also preparing an edition of Gerhard Krapf’s (1924-2008) previously unpublished “Choral Settings of the Chorales in J. S. Bach’s Clavierübung III.”