Robert Webb
Robert Webb is a Sheffield based freelance musician: Conductor, accompanist, arranger, composer and teacher. He is Director of Music and Organist at St Marie’s Cathedral, Sheffield, and as well as conducting the Sterndale Singers he is musical director of Sheffield Chamber Choir. He is also Assistant Head of Practice at Hill House School, Doncaster, where he teaches piano and singing and leads many of the school's singing and instrumental groups.
Robert was born and brought up in Guisborough, North Yorkshire, where he joined the church choir at the age of seven and then later learned to play the organ. He went to Selwyn College Cambridge with a Choral Scholarship where he read law and was subsequently Assistant Organist at the University Church of St Mary the Great. He went to law college in Chester where he was also a lay clerk in the cathedral.
Robert qualified as a solicitor, and worked in Cambridge for a few years until the musical call drowned out any desire to be a lawyer and he moved to Oxford to pursue music full time. Whilst there he was Director of Music at several churches, and also directed the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church Cathedral.
Robert 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. Other recent posts include Director of Sheffield City Opera and Accompanist to the Sheffield University Singers’ Society.
