Background
Stout, Alan Burrage was born on November 26, 1932 in Baltimore. Son of Alan Burrage and Elizabeth Archer (Smithson) Stout.
Stout, Alan Burrage was born on November 26, 1932 in Baltimore. Son of Alan Burrage and Elizabeth Archer (Smithson) Stout.
Student, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore. Bachelor of Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1954. Postgraduate, University Copenhagen, 1955.
Master of Arts in Music and Swedish Lang, University Washington, 1959.
His instructors included Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger, John Verrall, and Vagn Holmboe, the latter at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark for a year. in 1959. He taught at Northwestern University beginning in 1962. His notable students include Joseph Schwantner, Augusta Read Thomas, Jared Spears, Marilyn Shrude, Maggi Payne, David Evan Thomas, Michael Twomey, Justinian Tamusuza, Frank Ferko, Michael Pisaro, Craig Shepard, Judge-Advocate Kawarsky, Arved Ashby and Reginald Bain.
His style is modernist, incorporating elements of 12-tone music as well as experimental styles.
His music has been performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Member American Composers Alliance, American Civil Liberties Union, Arnold Schoenberg Institute, International Webern Society, Alban Berg Society, American-Scandinavian Foundation, American Brahms Society, College Music Society, American Association University Professors, Percy Grainger Society, Sonneck Society.