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Robert Webb - Musical Director
Yorkshire-born Robert Webb was educated at Selwyn College Cambridge, where he held a choral scholarship read law and was organ scholar and then assistant organist at the University Church of St Mary the Great in Cambridge. Following a career as a solicitor in Cambridge, during which Robert was also organist at Trumpington Church, and conducted several choirs, he decided music was a greater calling and left the law in 1996 to become a full time musician, moving to Oxford and, for a time working as a motorcycle courier to fulfil a teenage dream. Several churches and choirs later, most notably the Cathedral Singers of Oxford Cathedral, Robert returned to his native Yorkshire working as Director of Music at St John’s Church, Ranmoor until August last year. 
As well as conducting the Sterndale Singers, Robert directs the Sheffield Chamber Choir and the Danensian Choir and is accompanist to the University’s Singers’ Society and Sheffield City Opera. He also recently worked with Trent Opera in a performance of Sweeny Todd in the Waterford International Festival. Robert is also the Education and Training Officer for the Royal School of Church Music in Sheffield and South Yorkshire. He has an active private teaching practice (piano, organ, music theory and singing) through the Milsom School of Music and is in demand as an organist, accompanist and choral director across Sheffield and Yorkshire.
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.
Robert's also composes a variety of music, with several anthems regularly sung by several choirs. Robert also composes. His first major work, a children's Christmas Cantata, Come Follow Me!, co-written with writer Mellie Buse, won critical acclaim at its premier performance in November 1998 in the Apollo Theatre, Oxford in aid of Save The Children and his first large-scale work in Sheffield, Laudate Dominum, for was written for and performed by the Sheffield University Singers' Society in May 2010.
(Last updated on 02-04-2012)