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After an extensive search, Honley Male Voice Choir are pleased to announce the appointment of Kei h Edwin Roberts as their new Musical Director to succeed Alan Jenkins.
Keith, 36, who was recently appointed Choral Director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds, has an impressive CV and since 2001 has been working as a freelance musician – singer, teacher, conductor, arranger and composer.
Born in Dartford in Kent, he was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral from 1980 to 1985 and after leaving Tonbridge School in 1990 he spent three years at King’s College, Cambridge University, where he ran the college’s choral scholars group and conducted the college orchestra.
He graduated in 1994 with a BA Honours degree in Geography and worked as a transport planner at London Transport until 2001 when he decided to become a full-time musician. Since 2003 he has been Musical Director at various times of three mixed-voice choirs and an all female jazz choir in the south of England.
For the last fourteen years he has also conducted several professional close harmony groups singing varied repertoire ranging from medieval to pop music.
He joined Ranby House School in Retford in 2003 as a peripatetic singing teacher and was Head of Vocal Studies when he left in 2006 to become Director of Music at Crosfields School in Berkshire where he remained until 2007. In 2006 he was appointed as singing teacher to the choristers at Southwell Minster and is currently vocally training the choristers at the Temple Church in London.
Keith is also a professional countertenor and regularly sings in churches and cathedrals specialising mostly in contemporary and early music and has sung as a soloist with several leading choir in London. Arranging and composing has formed part of his career since leaning university. He has mainly written for the groups with whom he sings or conducts but has also been commissioned to write a number of works which have been performed and recorded at leading musical festivals.
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