Jane Rutter devotes much of her time to community service and charitable work. She is an Australia Day Ambassador who regularly performs gratis for charities, and donates her time mentoring younger musicians.
Since 2012 Jane Rutter has been Artistic Director of the successful social inclusion Concert series Live at Lunch at The Concert Hall of the Concourse, Chatswood for Willoughby City Council.
Miss Rutter has donated the bulk of her Artistic Director services gratis since the beginning of the series, spending vast amounts of her own time in order to create performance opportunities for her fellow musicians. Sydney audiences have benefited from the programme, which provides the highest quality classical, jazz and cross-over music at a low-cost ticket price. Audiences can attend lunch with the musicians after each concert, increasing the sense of social inclusion.
During Covid lock downs Jane created and edited free-to-view, on-line streaming concerts for her audiences.
In 2024 Jane Rutter will perform for The Corrilee Foundation, Elevate the Stage and other causes.
To raise awareness of disposable plastics in the ocean, Jane created a series of environmental awareness videos on Youtube featuring prominent Australians including John Olsen, Simon Tedeschi, Nell Schofield and John Doyle (Roy Slaven).
‘When a musician of Ms Rutter’s capability comes up with an idea one can be assured that the idea will have musical integrity, will be hugely appealing to a wide public and will demonstrate yet again another facet of her deeply creative mind.
Ms Rutter has done much to promote music for the flute and the flute generally, here and abroad. Her tireless work has seen her involved in a number of projects, all emanating from her active and very creative brain and each project marked with a strong sense of musical worth, high artistic merit and universal appeal.
Ms Rutter is very much a musician for the common man; this not to say that she plays down to people but she makes her music accessible to all. In her work she is inclusive of everyone and values all listeners. Her advocacy for music and the flute is exemplary and her initiative is equally so. I support her… without qualification and wish her great success’
–Richard Gill OAM Hon Doc Mus (ECU) Hon Doc (ACU) Music Director Victorian Opera
