Dr. B.A. Ferguson was born in Waco, Texas. They were 11 years old when they came across the video game Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo, and the next year they would play Suikoden. These games would be catalysts getting them into music and composition. They started learning guitar in their freshman year of high school in San Antonio.

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, Dr. B.A. Ferguson pursued a bachelor’s of music composition. They won the Reed Holmes award in 2007 for their compositions, and they graduated in that same year. Ferguson’s composition “Through the Looking Glass in 60 Seconds” was curated as part of the 60×60 Scarlet Mix, and it was performed throughout the world. After a brief orchestration gig, they pursued their master’s degree in music theory at Texas State University. At this time, they also started playing with the Led Zeppelin tribute band, Mothership.

After four years of teaching in the Austin area, Dr. B.A. Ferguson pursued a PhD in music theory and composition at the University of Kansas. They continued to perform with Mothership, and started playing with the sister group: Q: The Music of Queen. Q turned out to be massively successful around the US. While working as an adjunct instructor at several universities and a community college in Kansas, Dr. B.A. Ferguson completed their PhD at KU in 2020.

Dr. B.A. Ferguson’s video game research co-authored with TJ Laws-Nicola was recently published in the Journal of Sound and Music in Video Games (2021), the edited collection Nostalgia in Video Game Music (2022), and the edited collection The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music (2023). They also completed five video game soundtracks in 2020 and 2021. As a classical guitar performer, Dr. B.A. Ferguson performs music of living composers with a specialty on music from Latin America and video game music arrangements. In June 2022, Dr. Ferguson was a guest musician at Naka-Kon in Overland Park, KS where they gave two performances of Eric Roth’s RPG National Anthem Variations and three panels. They also perform with Dr. Michael Averett in the MIENT Duo, and the duo have an album under the Centaur Record label, …souls like birds (2022). Dr. B.A. Ferguson has another album of flamenco covers of videogame music, Guitar for Everyone’s Souls, due out in 2024.