Robert Webb
Musical Director, Skipton Choral
Robert is a conductor, composer, trumpet player, singer and teacher from Leeds. He read Music at Merton College, Oxford, and was a choral scholar under the direction of Peter Phillips (Tallis Scholars) and Ben Nicholas. Robert has conducted many choirs and taught in numerous schools in Leeds and West Yorkshire; he currently conducts Pinsuti Chamber Choir based in Ilkley as well as Skipton Choral. Robert teaches singing and trumpet and directs the Senior Chamber Choir at The Grammar School at Leeds. He also sings Baritone and Alto with the vocal ensemble northsong (north8choir.co.uk) and is Bass Lay Clerk at Bradford Cathedral Choir, where his eldest son is a chorister. In any (extremely limited) spare time, Robert plays trumpet and flugelhorn with the Brazilian fusion band Tempo Feliz, fanatically supports the San Francisco 49ers, and recently retired from playing flag American football for the Leeds Samurai due to old age!
