Joshua (Josh) Stafford is the Jared Jacobsen Chautauqua Organist and director of sacred music at Chautauqua Institution. A native of Jamestown, N.Y., Josh began playing the organ at age 11, taking lessons from Jared Jacobsen. An organist with an international reputation and a local boy with a Chautauquan heart, this is Josh’s second summer assembly as our organist. During the year, Josh is the new organist/director of music at Riverside Presbyterian Church of Jacksonville, FL.