Royce Martin - Piano

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Royce Martin
Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 2pm

Haddonfield United Methodist Church
29 Warwick Road
Haddonfield, NJ 08033

"... at the 2023 Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, a young performer making his festival debut unassumingly took the stage under the main tent and held the audience spellbound as he played these and other Joplin standards in startling, fresh arrangements brimming with creativity, virtuosity, and plenty of surprises. The assembled Joplin die-hards had never heard anything quite like it, and by the end of the week, 23-year-old Royce Martin was the talk of the town." - Syncopated Times

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Royce Martin is a pianist, composer, and 2022 graduate of Berklee College of Music. Born in St. Louis, Royce taught himself to play the piano at the age of 14 on a small keyboard. He has a rich musical background and an affinity for a myriad of genres. Having worked as the in-house pianist and lecturer at the Scott Joplin State Historic Site between semesters at Berklee, after college graduation, Royce returned to St. Louis to record an album of a dozen Joplin classics, reinterpreted in his own eclectic style for his debut album “Memories on Morgan Street: Scott Joplin Reimagined”. Royce has provided original music for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion special on MAX, Hulu’s Mormon no More, and most recently completed a full feature length score for MAX documentary They Called Him Mostly Harmless. In October of 2024, The New York Times opinion columnist John McWhorter captured Royce's piano playing in three words: “Sly, Relatable and Brilliant”. Royce continues on his path of exploration and experimentation with innovations on his new genre creation that he has coined Swagtime. By combining the striding pianism of ragtime, with the melodic storytelling and lyricism of bebop and rap, Swagtime is the bridge between then, now, and tomorrow.   (from roycemertimusic.com)

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