
Roger Bryant,
tenor, is an Assistant Professor of Music at Texas A&M
University-Commerce, where he teaches Voice, Diction for Singers, and
Graduate Vocal Pedagogy. He has also taught at Texas Christian
University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Ambassador
University. In addition, he has served as an Adjunct Instructor of Voice
at the University of Texas at Tyler, Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary, and Paris Junior College.
He has been a finalist in the Lyric
Opera of Chicago auditions, a national winner of the San Francisco Opera
auditions, and has performed with the Spring Opera Theater, a subsidiary
company of the San Francisco Opera.
Mr. Bryant has performed with the Dallas, Fort Worth,
San Antonio, Akron, and New Mexico Symphony Orchestras, among others. He
has also performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the William
Hall Chorale, and the Bodensee Symphonie Orchester of Germany. He has
been a member of the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, appearing as tenor
soloist in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, on the group's tour of
southern France. He performed the same work in Carnegie Hall as a member
of the Robert Shaw Festival Singers.
Mr. Bryant has earned the Bachelor of Music Education
and Master of Music degrees, and has been awarded the Performer's
Certificate in Voice, all from Texas Christian University. He and his
family reside in Sulphur Springs, Texas, where his wife, Lyna Jane, also
a graduate of TCU, has been active in elementary school music, piano
instruction, church music, including children’s choir and organ/piano,
and in the Northeast Texas Choral Society, as chorister and accompanist.