About

Joseph Ferguson is an organist and pianist in the greater New York area. He is currently Associate Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton, New Jersey, where we serves as the principal accompanist and works with the Adult, Schola, and Treble Choirs. Additionally, he leads music for the Episcopal Church at Princeton, conducting the Lux Choir in weekly liturgies. Previously, Joseph served as Organ Scholar at Church of the Heavenly Rest in Manhattan, New York, where he accompanied the adult choir and choristers on the church’s 138-rank Austin organ, performed service music and voluntaries, improvised, and conducted regularly.

Joseph earned a graduate degree in Organ at Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music, where he studied with James O'Donnell and Martin Jean. His past instructors include Vincent Carr and Renée Anne Louprette. He pursued studies of Catholic sacred music at St. Joseph’s Seminary & College in Yonkers, New York and St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, California. As a liturgical musician, he maintains keen interests in improvisation and Catholic liturgy. Previously, Joseph earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance from Rutgers University and McGill University respectively, cultivating a passion for the imaginative, idiosyncratic performance practices documented on recordings of the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

Notable performances include Dohnányi’s comic piano concerto Variations on a Nursery Theme, Op. 25 with Rutgers Sinfonia as winner of the ensemble’s annual concerto competition; a solo organ recital at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, New Jersey as part of the Wednesdays at Noon series; Fauré’s Requiem, Op. 48 alongside chamber orchestra at Church of the Heavenly Rest; and a sung Catholic Vespers with Yale Consort under the direction of James O’Donnell.