Chad Fothergill is appointed chapel organist for Duke Chapel, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, where he has recently served as interim chapel organist. He will continue as the primary organist for Duke Divinity School.
In conjunction with the university organist, Robert Parkins, Fothergill will continue to lead and support congregational singing at chapel services and university ceremonies in the chapel. In addition to accompanying the Chapel Choir, he will mentor the chapel’s organ scholar and per-form at weekly organ demonstrations as well as in chapel concerts. At the Divinity School, he will assist with planning and leadership of weekday liturgies.
As a scholar and performer, Fothergill is frequently engaged as a worship leader, speaker, writ-er, consultant, and composer. He has presented solo recitals, lecture-recitals, hymn festivals, workshops, and papers at gatherings of the American Guild of Organists, Haydn Society of North America, 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.
Prior to coming to Duke University in 2022, Fothergill was interim co-director of the Institute of Liturgical Studies at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso Indiana, editor of CrossAccent: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and held visiting faculty appointments at Gusta-vus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, and the University of Delaware, Newark. He completed degrees in organ performance at Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Iowa and is a doctoral candidate in musicology at Temple University with focus on the social and vocational histories of Lutheran cantors from the Reformation through the time of J. S. Bach.
For information: chapel.duke.edu.
Other recent appointments:
Thomas Marvil to Christ Church Cathedral, Houston
Margaret Harper to Trinity Episcopal Church, Princeton, New Jersey
