Glen Thomas Rideout, Director of Music
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Glen Thomas Rideout, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, is an award- winning conductor and baritone. Glen Thomas earned his bachelor’s degree in voice from Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree from the top- ranked conducting program at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Glen Thomas has studied voice with Gayle Shay, Jonathan Retzlaff and Stephen West. His conducting mentors include Philip Olsen, Robin Fountain, Paul Rardin and Jerry Blackstone.

Glen Thomas enjoys an active schedule as a music minister, conductor and clinician, 
having led the music ministries of congregations in Maryland, Tennessee and Michigan. While serving as artistic director of the Voices of Praise at Vanderbilt University, Glen Thomas facilitated the choir's growth from 20 to 70 members in three years and remains the choir's longest- serving elected director. While studying at the University of Michigan, Glen Thomas won second prize in the National  Student Conducting Competition of the American Choral Director’s Association. He has served as assistant conductor and resident composer for the McDonogh Concert Choir's tours of Poland, Prague, East Canada and Croatia. Upcoming conducting engagements include concerts in Catalonia, Paris and Andorra. In addition, Glen Thomas has founded chamber choirs in Maryland and Tennessee that continue to provide unique leadership opportunities to aspiring young conductors and music educators.

Glen Thomas’ work as a vocalist includes singing engagements include work with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the Mark Morris Dance Group and the University of Michigan.  An award- winning pianist, he has served more than 15 churches, ministries and organizations as a concert and worship service artist. Glen Thomas's compositions have been performed in the United States and Europe, six of his gospel songs having been recorded by the Holiday Choir of Hemingway Temple A.M.E. Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

Glen Thomas has served the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor as Director of Music since August, 2007.