Marshall Anthony Rutter (October 18, 1931 – December 4, 2024) was an American lawyer, arts patron and choral music administrator.
[4] At the urging of founding conductor Roger Wagner, Rutter helped set up the Master Chorale in 1964 as a resident company of the then newly constructed Los Angeles Music Center, and served as its president and later chairman.
He received Chorus America’s Michael Korn Founders Award for the Development of the Professional Choral Art in 2001.
Deborah F. Rutter was president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. from 2014 until February 2025.
Rutter died at his home in Pasadena on December 4, 2024, at the age of 93, survived by his wife Terry Knowles.