From early on in her career Margaret Roberts has worked as a piano accompanist, playing for some of the first BBC Young Musician of the Year competitions. As a music student at Brasenose College (Oxford) she specialised in piano performance and as organ exhibitioner, directed the chapel choir and played for college services and concerts.

She graduated with first class honours before postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music. She has pursued a varied career, teaching piano in numerous school and university music departments, and accompanying young musicians in competitions, auditions and recitals.

Frequently posted abroad with her husband's work in the Foreign Office, Margaret has taught in the british schools of Athens, Brussels and Bratislava. She has also performed with renowned soloists from Greece, Turkey and central Europe, giving recitals and masterclasses in the conservatoires and festival series of Ankara, Bratislava and Athens.  Abroad, she worked as musical director for many shows, pantomimes, cabarets and revues.

Margaret has recorded a number of CDs the earliest of which, with The Holywell Ensemble, was included in the BBC Music magazine's top 50 CDs of the year. She has premiered and recorded specially commissioned works, and with The Holywell Ensemble she has performed at major venues including London's South Bank and the Wigmore Hall. She has toured for the British Council and recorded for the ABRSM graded examinations.