Robert Webb – Musical Director
Robert studied law at Selwyn College Cambridge, where he held a choral scholarship. After graduating he spent a year in Chester Law College, singing as a Lay-clerk in the Cathedral, before settling back in Cambridge as a solicitor. His musical activities eventually drowned out any desire to be a lawyer and in 1996 he moved to Oxford to pursue music full time (working for a while as a motorcycle courier to fulfil a teenage dream and help make ends meet). He moved back to his native Yorkshire in 2003 to take up the post of Director of Music at St John’s Ranmoor, a post he held until 2010. As well as conducting Sheffield City Opera, Robert directs Sheffield Chamber Choir, the Sterndale Singers, Bel Canto Choir and the Danensian Choir and is an Area Consultant to the RSCM, and accompanist to the Sheffield University Singers’ Society. Robert also has a busy private practice teaching piano, singing and music theory. Robert’s energetic encouragement of singers, combined with a sense of musicianship and humour, means that rehearsals are fun as well as instructive. His belief that choirs should understand what they are singing and perform it in as musical a way as possible, means that whoever he is conducting, the results are always musical, exciting and memorable