Roger A. Martinez is a composer who specializes in opera and soundtrack music. Roger's operatic work frequently blends traditional chamber instrumentation with electronic components such as programmed beats, synthesizers, and sound design. His most recent operatic work, Souls Unscreened, is an electronic opera written in collaboration with librettist Alize Francheska Rozsnyai. Souls Unscreened debuted its first act in 2024 at New York City's Brooklyn Art Haus. Other operatic works include 2021's Alcina Revamped, for which Roger contributed electronic rearrangements of Handel's classic opera, and Potentialite, an original work that premiered in 2019. Both Alcina Revamped and Potentialite were performed as part of Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Roger has collaborated with opera companies such as NYC's Experiments in Opera as well as Philadelphia's Alter Ego Chamber Opera and ENA Ensemble.
Roger is currently working on a new opera to premiere in 2026, as a part of Experiments in Opera's Writers' Room residency.
Roger has written soundtrack music for films, video games, podcasts. Recent works include music for the podcast Tell Us What You Know, produced by UCLA college, and Beggars Belief, a podcast about historical oddities. Roger also performs as a bassist and guitarist, most recently contributing electric bass to the 2025 EP The Lifegivers by Latin fusion band Interminable, and double bass to experimental rock group Luna Honey's 2024 record Bound. Roger also produced and contributed string arrangements to the 2024 album Nectar, by chamber pop group Settled Arrows.
Roger is a graduate of San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Technology and Applied Composition program.