Music Professionals
Steven Roberts – Music Director
Steven has been Music Director since 1994 and brought with him a wealth of experience. He has continued to bring innovative programmes and inspire performances of a very high standard.
Steven’s career is very wide-ranging:
- He is Music Director and Conductor of Altrincham Choral Society, Chesterfield Philharmonic Choir and Honley Male Voice Choir.
- He is an Adjudicator Member of the British and International Federation of Festivals and regularly adjudicates throughout the United Kingdom. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Federation.
- Prior to 2006, Steven combined his musical activities with a full-time post at Barnsley College.
- He has worked with the Huddersfield Choral Society and the Liverpool Welsh Choral Union.
- He has conducted numerous times at the Royal Albert Hall, London and many other prestigious UK concert halls. He has also conducted in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, St Mark’s in Venice and many other sacred settings including Florence, Sorrento, Amalfi, Milan, Austria, Paris, Bavaria, Montecassino, Barcelona and Poland.
- He is also Musical Director for COAL, the award-winning contemporary dance piece choreographed by Gary Clarke. The piece is set at the height of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike and is currently touring the UK featuring live brass music.
- He has worked with many choirs, brass bands, orchestras and wind bands and continues to work in a variety of musical settings.
David Lloyd-Mostyn – Assistant Music Director
David has been our Assistant Music Director since 2006. He enjoys a varied musical life as a composer, teacher and conductor:
- While at Leeds University he was twice winner of the University’s Composition Competition. He has also been the recipient of other national prizes such as the Schouller Organ Composition Prize and the Wallace Ensemble Prize. He has since enjoyed a number of commissions from a variety of bodies, from small chamber ensembles through to large-scale choruses and symphony orchestras. These have led to performances across Europe and America.
- David has also written music for television and theatre. Some highlights included Primal Fire for massed children’s choir to celebrate the relay of the Olympic Torch through Runcorn, and The Fate of Chattox written for clarinet and piano to mark the 400-year anniversary of the Pendle Witch trials and was featured in a BBC Radio 4 documentary.
- Having spent seven years as Head of Music at Cronton Sixth Form College in Widnes where he was instrumental in the college being designated as a Centre of Excellence for Performing Arts, he now oversees Music at Loreto College in Manchester. He has developed a new type of musical analysis designed to deepen the understanding and enjoyment of classical music, and is much in demand as a music consultant in other schools and colleges.
Angela Lloyd-Mostyn – Accompanist
Angela joins us as Accompanist from September 2026, having previously worked with Altrincham Choral Society on several occasions as a cover accompanist.
Her training and career span education, performance, and coaching across the North West and beyond. She was awarded a First Class Honours degree from the University of Leeds, which included a year studying at the Saxion Conservatorium in the Netherlands, before undertaking postgraduate studies in piano accompaniment at the Royal Northern College of Music. The recipient of a prestigious Allcard Award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians for rising young artists, Angela was awarded the RNCM Lieder Accompaniment Prize and won the RNCM Granada Prize for Chamber Music.
A familiar presence across the North West choral and operatic scenes, Angela spent a decade as accompanist for Oldham Choral Society, alongside extensive work with The Philharmonic Choir of Manchester and répétiteur roles for City of Manchester Opera and Avalon Opera. She held a position as Staff Pianist, and subsequently Senior Lecturer in Performance at Leeds College of Music.
As a freelance pianist, highlights include a BBC Radio 4 broadcast with Aquilon Clarinet & Piano Duo, several piano concerto performances, and appearing as piano soloist in Constant Lambert’s The Rio Grande. Angela also teaches piano at Manchester High School for Girls, The Manchester Grammar School, and West Didsbury CE Primary School, alongside her performing and accompanying work.
Lydia Bryan – Accompanist Emeritus 1996 to 2026
Roger Shelmerdine – President
Roger has been our President since 2009 and is very active, often attending our rehearsals and supporting our concerts.
Roger has had a varied musical career:
- He studied composition and piano with Professor Franz Reizenstein (a distinguished pupil of Vaughan Williams) at the Royal Manchester College of Music. He went on to London University to complete a teaching degree, specialising in primary school music.
- He has held posts as permanent Musical Director for Sale Operatic and guest MD for the Trafford Margaretians and Urmston Operatic Societies.
- He has composed five full-scale musicals, ranging from The Royal Rose (based on The Prisoner of Zenda) to Jane Eyre.
- He founded the Stage One Orchestra which has continued to play annually in the Trafford Young Composer and Poet Competition. Roger began this venture in 1992 to give youngsters a unique chance to hear their compositions and poems performed live, in front of sell-out audiences.
- He also devises an annual Concert for Children involving hundreds of young people. These are fun evenings where the children can join in with games, and have practical music experiences with the Orchestra.
- He has been guest conductor of Manchester Opera Orchestra and Hale Light Orchestra and is principal conductor of Northenden Senior Choir.
- He has been on the judging panel of Sale Festival Junior Choir Competition for several years and regularly helps in the organisation of Altrincham and District Schools’ Music Festival.
- He has been commissioned to write songs and nativity presentations for Trafford schools. Latterly, he has returned to composing larger scale works for adults including The Poppies Blow, premiered by ACS in November 2014.
- Roger was made a Freeman of Altrincham for his services to music in the Borough in 2015.
Altrincham Choral Society is a large mixed voice choir of around 120 singers and was established in 1945.