Alastair Stout is Director of Music Ministries at Grace Congregational UCC in Rutland, VT. 

He directs the resident choirs, is Artistic Director of the Rutland Area Chorus and Festival Orchestra, 

and curates  the Grace Church bi-annual Composition Competition.

Prior to Grace Congregational UCC, he was Director of Music at the Coraopolis UMC (2002 -2017), Director of the Pittsburgh Compline Choir (2010-17) and Assistant Organist at Wesley’s Chapel, the Mother Church of World Methodism, in London, UK, (1993-2001).

“Since Stout came to Grace Church in 2017, he has broadened the scope of an already outstanding music program, successfully mixing community and cutting-edge.”

                                Times Argus, May 2023