He won his first music festival as a boy soprano at the age of 7. He was educated at the King Edward VII School Melton Mowbray and at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was awarded the Samuel Prize and formed the Vocal group The English Chorale. He was a member of The Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra where after playing the Clarinet and Euphonium, a lifelong passion for timpani and percussion began. Sir Michael Tippet the orchestras patron, directed his Child of Our Time with the orchestra, an inspirational experience that encouraged Roberts love of singing and choral music and his ambition to make music his life.. Read More……