John Rutter

John is a distinguished English composer and conductor associated mainly with choral music. He developed ME/CFS after contracting Chicken Pox from his son and was badly affected for many years. ‘Gloria’, ‘Requiem’, ‘Magnificat’, ‘Mass of the Children’, ‘The Gift of Life’, and ‘Visions’, are widely performed around the world, and many of his shorter pieces such as ‘The Lord bless you and keep you’, ‘For the beauty of the earth’, ‘Look at the world’, and ‘All things bright and beautiful’ have become ‘standards’. He was appointed patron of the charity in 2014.