terndale Singers

Musical Director

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. 

Robert Webb, Musical Director

After graduating he qualified as a solicitor, working 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.

Robert Webb is a Sheffield based free-lance musician: Conductor, accompanist, arranger, composer and teacher. He is Director of Music and Organist at St Marie’s Cathedral, Sheffield, and conducts the Sheffield Chamber Choir, Bel Canto Choir, South Yorkshire, and the Sheffield Sterndale Singers. He is also a visiting tutor at Hill House School, Doncaster, where he teaches piano, singing and musical theory, and also has a private teaching practice based in Sheffield.