Ratter Composer Biography

He grew up in the Globe pub on the London Marilebon Road. He was educated in high school, among classmates were John Tavener, Howard Shelley, Brian Chapple and Nicholas Snowman, and participated as a chorist in the first year, then he read music at Claire College in Cambridge, where he was a member of the choir. He worked as a music director at Clare College for a year and led the choir at the international level.

In the year, Ratter founded his own Cambridge Singers choir, which he conducted and with which he made many records of the Holy Choral Repertoire including his own works, especially under his leadership. He lives at Hemingford Abbots in Cambridge and often conducts many choirs and orchestras around the world. In the year, he became an honorary member of the Westminster Church College in Princeton, and in the year he became a member of the guild of church musicians.

In the year, he became an honorary judge Middle Temple, playing an important role in the temple festival of the year. From for the year, Ratter seriously suffered from myalgic Encephalomyelitis ME, or chronic fatigue syndrome, which limited its production; After a year, he stopped writing music by order, as he could not guarantee compliance with the deadlines.

Ratter also works as an arranger and editor. In his youth, he collaborated with Sir David Willcox over five volumes of an extremely successful series of Antologies Carols for Choirs. It was appointed by the National cartridge of Delta Omicron, an international professional musical community in the year. The compositions of the Ratter composition are mainly choral and include Christmas hymns, hymns and expanded works, such as Gloria, Requiem and Magnifier.

In the year, he installed a psalm ordered for the queen’s gold anniversary, and was executed at the anniversary service of thanksgiving in St. Paul's Cathedral in London. In the same way, he was instructed to write a new anthem “This is a day” for the wedding of Prince William and Katherine Middleton in the year, performed in Westminster Abbey during the service. Ratter's work was published by Oxford University Press.

It was recorded by many choirs, but he keeps his own records mainly on his Collegium Records label. Influences Ratter's music is eclectic, demonstrating the influence of the French and English choral tradition of the early 20th century, as well as easy music and a classic American songwriter. Many of his works were also arranged for a concert group with an optional choir.

Despite the fact that he composed and conducted with great religious music, Ratter told the American television program 60 minutes a year that he was not a particularly religious person, but still deeply spiritual and inspired by the spirituality of sacred poems and prayers. The main topics discussed in the 60 minutes program, which was broadcast a week before the Christmas of the year, were the popularity of Ratter in choral groups in the USA, Great Britain and other parts of the world and its composing a mass for children, written after the sudden death of his son Christopher, while studying at Claire Cambridge, where Ratter himself studied.

In an interview with the year, Ratter spoke about his understanding of the “genius” and his unique ability to change life - regardless of whether this genius is transmitted in the form of music or other media. He compared the purity of music with the purity of mathematics and connected them with reference to the opening made by early Greeks, according to which the frequencies of harmonic sounds are connected by integer relationships.

In the UK, many relate to him with great respect, as evidenced by the following quote from a review in the London Evening Standard on September 25, Sue Lawley called Ratter “the most famous and successful composer of carols from the now living,” and Sean Rafferty proclaimed Ratter “the creator of not only hymns, but also wonderful great things for the people”. One British composer, David Arditti, did not consider him a rather “serious” composer, saying that Ratter is “difficult to take seriously because his obvious technical capabilities or universality lead to a superficial, unstable style of a crossover, which is neither classical nor pop, and which tends to sweetly sentimental in its harmoniously harmonized and orchestrated melodies.

" The Guardian noted that “it was as an writer of hymns that he really left his mark on his large -scale work - especially Gloria, Requiem and Magnificat - are also well known in the world. David Will Cox considered Ratter "the most gifted composer of his generation." List of works and arrangements.