Background
Carl Rütti grew up in Zug, Switzerland.
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Carl Rutti
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This was completed in 2007. He took his A levels at the monastery school in Engelberg, then studied music at the Zürich Conservatoire, finishing in 1975 with a Solisten-diploma in piano and organization In 1976 he studied under Kendall Taylor and Richard Latham in London.
Career
In 2005, Rütti was commissioned by the Bach Choir to write a Requiem. Some of his compositions for a cappella choir were recorded by the choir of Brompton Oratory, London (1978), and the British Broadcasting Corporation Singers, and broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation (1982). Since then he has composed a steady output of largely religious choral works.
His compositions also include the carol "I wonder as I wander", which has been performed several times in recent years as part of King’s College Cambridge’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.
Rütti"s music blends the English choral tradition with other genres including jazz and the blues. His work has been performed all over the world.
