They have recorded several highly acclaimed Christmas albums, including Christmas Day in the Morning, Christmas Night: Carols of the Nativity, Christmas Star, Christmas with the Cambridge Singers, and The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album. John Milford Rutter CBE (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music. At school, Rutter already loved to sing and compose. They have been involved in the last four Fresh Aire albums (about "mankind's curiosities") of the Mannheim Steamroller band, by composer Chip Davis, but they are primarily a classical choral group. Born on 24 September 1945 in London, John Rutter was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was the future composer John Tavener. John Rutter was born on Augin Ontario, Canada. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first recording while still a student. The Lord Is My Shepherd By John Rutter (1945-) - vocal score Sheet Music for. The group initially comprised former singers from the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, where Rutter had previously been the music director. John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. Jonathan Douglas Jon Lord (born 9 June 1941) also known as Hammond Lord. The division of the work into three movements respectively proclamatory, prayerful, and joyfully affirmative corresponds to the divisions in the text. Gloria was written in 1974 in response to a commission from The Voices of Mel Olson, a choir based in the USA.
#John rutter biography full#
The Cambridge Singers is an English mixed voice chamber choir formed in 1981 by their director John Rutter with the primary purpose of making recordings under their own label Collegium Records. for SATB and brass ensemble or full orchestra.