Royce Strider is best known throughout the U.S.A. as a versatile and charismatic singer and performer. A recent Philadelphia transplant, his 2023/2024 season will see him singing with Opera Philadelphia, Musica Tevere, and The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, among other organizations. While living in the Pittsburgh area, Royce enjoyed four seasons as a chorister and soloist with the Pittsburgh Camerata and one season with Transcendence in Erie, PA. With an affinity for early music and chamber collaboration, Royce completed training with Seraphic Fire’s Professional Choral Institute at the 2021 Aspen Music Festival. He also trained in Baroque performance at the Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music Baroque Collective program. Royce was named a National Finalist for the 2018-2019 American Prize in Art Song/Oratorio Performance. 

While his Jazz at Lincoln Center debut with Teatro Nuovo was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020/2021 season saw Royce in a new recording of Le nozze di Figaro as part of the inaugural season with Social Distance Opera, an extension of Barn Opera. He has performed on stage throughout the country with organizations such as the Natchez Festival of Music, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, Painted Sky Opera, and Ohio Light Opera. 

His concert work includes the solos for Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Mozart’s Requiem, Brahms's Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and numerous Bach cantatas.

Other opera and theatre roles include Capulet (Roméo et Juliette), the Mayor (John Musto’s The Inspector), Reverend Hale (The Crucible), Prince Yashvin (David Carlson’s Anna Karenina), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Brétigny (Manon), the Baker (Into the Woods), Betto (Gianni Schicchi), Henry Davis (Street Scene), Le Superintendent des plaisirs (Cendrillon), Starveling (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Kromov (Die Lustige Witwe), and Lillas Pastia (La tragédie de Carmen). 

With roots in Norman, OK, he completed his Bachelor of Music at the University of Missouri - Kansas City and his Masters at the University of Houston. Royce lives with his wife and son, and loves good food, good wine, and his not-so-good cats, Hamlet and Horatio.