Name: Organ Recital Series: Katelyn Emerson
Start: 2026-02-01T17:00:00
Location: Duke University

Katelyn Emerson

Duke University Department of Music

Chad Fothergill is Chapel Organist at Duke University and the organist for Duke Divinity School. He has presented recitals, lectures, lecture-recitals, hymn festivals, and workshops for numerous musical and liturgical organizations throughout the United States. Before his appointment to Duke, he held visiting faculty appointments at Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Delaware, as well as church positions in Iowa City, Philadelphia, New York City, and Minneapolis. Since 2018, he has also served each summer on the faculty of the Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival. Mr. Fothergill's recital program will feature the Flentrop organ, with works by Dieterich Buxtehude, his contemporaries, and his predecessors

Organ Recital Series: Chad Fothergill

Duke University

Katelyn Emerson, hailed as "one of the world's most promising organists," is internationally renowned for performances throughout North America, Europe, and Asia that are "thrilling from beginning to end." A prizewinner of competitions on three continents, including first prize in the American Guild of Organists' 2016 National Young Artists' Competition in Organ Performance, she has recorded solo CDs for the Pro Organo label. Ms. Emerson is currently based in both the USA and the United Kingdom, having been awarded grants to support her PhD research at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Music and Science. Her recital program, performed on the Brombaugh and Flentrop organs, will include music by Buxtehude, Jacquet de La Guerre, M. Rossi, Cabanilles, Reimann, and others.