Editing John Rutter (section)

==Biography==
Born on 24 September 1945<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schwarm |first1=Betsy |title=John Rutter |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Rutter |website=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]]|date=20 September 2023 }}</ref> in London, the son of an industrial chemist and his wife, Rutter grew up living over the Globe pub on London's [[Marylebone Road]].<ref name="macfarlane">{{cite web|last=Macfarlane|first=Alan|title=Interview with John Rutter|url=http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/DO/filmshow/rutter1_fast.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304201132/http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/DO/filmshow/rutter1_fast.htm |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=18 December 2013}}</ref> He was educated at [[Highgate School]], where fellow pupils included [[John Tavener]], [[Howard Shelley]], [[Brian Chapple]] and [[Nicholas Snowman]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hughes|first1=Patrick|last2=Davies|first2=Ian F.|title=Highgate School Register 1833–1988|edition=7th|publisher=Castle Cary Press}}</ref> As a chorister there, Rutter took part in the first (1963) recording of [[Britten]]'s ''[[War Requiem]]'' under the composer's baton.<ref name=Naxos>{{cite web|title=About this Recording|url=https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.557130&catNum=557130&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English|work=Rutter: Requiem/Anthems|publisher=[[Naxos Records|Naxos]]|year=2003|access-date=1 November 2016|archive-date=31 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331194931/https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.557130&catNum=557130&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English|url-status=dead}}</ref> He thence read music at [[Clare College, Cambridge]], where he was a member of the choir. Whilst an undergraduate, he had his first compositions published, including the "[[Shepherd's Pipe Carol]]".<ref name=Naxos/> He served as [[director of music]] at Clare College from 1975 to 1979, and led the choir to international prominence.

In 1981, Rutter founded his own choir, the [[Cambridge Singers]], which he conducts, and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire (including his own works), particularly under his own label ''[[Collegium Records]]''. He resides at [[Hemingford Abbots]] in [[Cambridgeshire]], and frequently conducts many choirs and orchestras around the world.

From 1985 to 1992, Rutter suffered severely from [[Chronic fatigue syndrome|myalgic encephalomyelitis]] (ME, or chronic fatigue syndrome), which restricted his output; after 1985, he stopped writing music on commission, as he was unable to guarantee meeting deadlines.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7W4AhL_gzo |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/E7W4AhL_gzo |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=Composer of the Week: John Rutter |date=25 January 2010 |publisher=BBC Radio 3|via=YouTube|access-date=28 September 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Rutter also works as an arranger and editor. As a young man, he collaborated with Sir [[David Willcocks]] on five volumes of the extraordinarily successful ''[[Carols for Choirs]]'' anthology series.

He was inducted as a National Patron of [[Delta Omicron]], an international professional music fraternity in 1985.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://delta-omicron.org/index00.html |title=Welcome To Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity |publisher=Delta Omicron |access-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127130549/http://delta-omicron.org/index00.html |archive-date=27 January 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.delta-omicron.org/news/2008Mar29_NAT_Patron.html |title=News |publisher=Delta Omicron |date=29 March 2008 |access-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725225040/http://delta-omicron.org/news/2008Mar29_NAT_Patron.html |archive-date=25 July 2011 }}</ref> Rutter is also a Vice-President of the Joyful Company of Singers, President of [[The Bach Choir]], and President of the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abcd.org.uk/about |title=About ''abcd'' |publisher=Association of British Choral Directors |access-date=7 February 2019}}</ref>