Heart of Texas Concert Band

Alamo City Arts

Heart of Texas Concert Band

Season 2025-2026

October 5

Huapango!

Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month

Mariachi Gallos de Oro

Alamo City Ballet Folklorico

Judson ISD Performing Arts Center

9443 Schaefer Rd

Converse, Texas 78109

November 23

The Grand European Tour

Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien,

and music by Mozart, Grieg, and Grainger

December 21

Christmas Bells are Ringing

River City Ringers

Dianne Brumley Chorale

February 1

Disney Magic

Music from Your Favorite Disney Films

March 1

HTxCB Favorites

Audience and Band Favorites

April 12

Composer Showcase 2026

Charles L. Booker Jr.

Composer and Conductor

May 17

HTxCB Talent Showcase 2026

Members of the Band as 

Composers, Soloists and Conductors

:July 4

America at 250!

River City Ringers

Cedar Mountain Chorale

You are invited to The Heart of Texas Concert Band's 17th Season. Save the dates and look for venues to be announced soon! 

Dear Friend of The Heart of Texas Concert Band: You have been instrumental in helping us grow and develop over the years. Thank you!

Your generosity has provided high quality, no-cost live music concerts to the San Antonio community at a time when affordable performances are getting harder to come by. Because of your financial gifts, our community has enjoyed 16 years of 8 themed band concerts! We couldn’t have done that without your help. We can’t thank you enough!

Since its inception in 2009, the band has performed over 160 free concerts for increasing audiences in 35 unique venues in San Antonio and surrounding communities.

     The organization was honored to be the 2022 recipient of the Sudler Silver Scroll, sponsored by the John Philip Sousa Foundation.  North America’s most prestigious award for community concert bands, the Silver Scroll identifies, recognizes and honors those community bands that have demonstrated particularly high standards of excellence in concert activities over a period of several years, and which have played a significant and leading role in the cultural and musical environment in their respective communities.

     R. Mark Rogers, the 2023 recipient of the Association of Concert Bands Outstanding Conductor Award, and founding Conductor of HTxCB, has shared the podium with more than 30 distinguished colleagues in rehearsals and performances including William Owens, Richard Floyd, Carol Brittin Chambers, Dr. James Worman, Ferd Volmar, and Dr. Gary Garner.

     The band collaborates with a wide variety of ensembles and cultural organizations in the community, such as the Dianne Brumley Chorale, the River City Ringers of San Antonio, the Alamo City Dance Company, Prickly Pear Clarinet Ensemble, the San Antonio Sax Quartet, the San Antonio Brass, the Cedar Mountain Chorale and the San Antonio Choral Society, to present varied concerts of wide interest.

     Paul Cohen, one of America's most sought-after saxophonists, Elisabeth Failing, vocalist; Ezra Johnson, vocalist and narrator; Dr. Rachel Frederikson, bassoonist; tenor, Rafael Moras, rising star of the opera and classical music world, and Barry Hearn, Principal Trombone of the Dallas Symphony, are some of the 70 featured soloists, instrumental and vocal, that have shared the stage with the band in performance. 

     The band has performed a series of concerts featuring the works of wind band composers, including concerts devoted to the music of William Owens, Alfred Reed, James Barnes, Rossano Galante, Johan de Meij, John Barnes Chance, W. Francis McBeth, Claude T. Smith, Morton Gould and others; and featured the music of hundreds of composers of numerous genres throughout the past years. 

     After representing the United States of America by performing the American Premier of Menu by Spanish composer Carlos Pellicer, HTxCB added to the band repertoire by commissioning a new composition entitled Euphoric City for the Tricentennial Celebration of San Antonio; and brought Carlos Pellicer, its composer, from Spain to conduct the premier performance. 

     It was the band’s honor to be recognized and invited to perform at the annual Texas Bandmasters Association Convention/Clinic under the baton of Dutch/American composer Johan de Meij, who returned to San Antonio in January 2021 to conduct the band in a program of his own music.  In July 2021, the HTxCB was featured at the TBA Convention/Clinic with a program entitled San Antonio’s Spanish Legacy.

 In early 2022, the Heart of Texas Concert Band joined with Alamo City Arts, expanding our mission to produce quality music performances to greater San Antonio. 

Funds raised by your generosity will be used to procure percussion instruments for the band, rent venues, and purchase new music.

We will continue to use your donations wisely to bring excellence to our concerts.      

Who We Are

The Heart of Texas Concert Band is a volunteer community band as diverse as San Antonio, not only in our membership, but also in the music we play and the different venues in which we perform, giving our gift of music to the community...