He has been an invited lecturer at State University of New York at Buffalo, The Children's Theater School, Minneapolis, MN, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC and numerous secondary schools in Florida and New York.

For example, a college level lecture given at the Ringling School of Art entitled, "Color and Sound" addressed the problems and issues involved in interdiciplinary art - a narrative about interdiciplinary art in general, and specifically, SCRIABIN and MESSIAEN's use of two entirely different color-to-tone scale systems as an example of borrowing ideas from outside music, and using them in a musical way.

If you are interested in attaining Michael Royal to present a lecture for your group or organization please e-mail your request to:
lectures@michaelroyal.com"

"Michael Royal's lectures give an overview and an in-depth, but non-technical explanation and demonstration of improvising music.

Some subjects from past lectures:

"How Do You Make It Up As You Go Along?",

"The Jazz Piano Trio"

"The Music of Bill Evans"

"The Rhyhm Section in Small Ensemble Playing"

"Evoking the Title of the Tune".

Mr. Royal has lectured at the pre-school level and at the graduate college level..