Subsequently, he became a student of Gordon Green at the Royal Northern College of Music where he studied from 1968 until his graduation in 1973.
[1] Later, he studied with Alexis Weissenberg and John Ogdon[2] and was a student of Peter Katin at the Royal College of Music.
Conductors under whose baton he has performed include Evgenii Svetlanov, Jacek Kaspszyk, Sir Edward Downes, Helmut Muller-Bruhl, Moshe Atzmon, David Atherton and Sir Charles Groves.
[citation needed] ClassicsToday.com described his Debussy as: "the most consistent in quality among modern editions...The pianist's robust, colourful sonority and sensitive phrasing perfectly suit this alluring, atmospheric repertoire".
Classical music critic Julian Haylock said (when referring to his interpretation of the Préludes): "Fergus-Thompson's range of tone colour, and control of dynamic and texture are nothing short of transcendental".