​Alamo City Dance Company
Artistic Director ​

Katie Rodriguez Hall
Katie Hall is native to San Antonio and has over 30 years experience in the performing arts. Mrs. Hall began her training with Scott Conway at the San Antonio School for the Performing Arts (SASPA) building a wide base of expertise in classical ballet, jazz, tap, folklorico, flamenco, latin ballroom, hip hop, musical theatre, comedy, and live performance.  She later became a member of the Alamo City Dance Company where she performed in the Nutcracker, Mid-Summer’s Night Dream and Lepidoptera.  Mrs. Hall has always maintained a strong love for the city of San Antonio and joined Fiesta Noche Del Rio as one of their core dancers.  After her time with Fiesta Noche Del Rio, Mrs. Hall had the honor of being crowned Miss Fiesta San Antonio.  She temporarily left San Antonio to attend Texas A&M University.  During her time in College Station she became the president and choreographer of Texas A&M University’s Ballet Folklorico Celestial.  Mrs. Hall was then named Choreographer and Artistic of Director of the wild west dinner show Tombstone Texas, and Santa’s Wonderland.  After graduating from Texas A&M Katie moved to Austin, started a family, and then returned to San Antonio where she began teaching at SASPA.  Mrs. Hall then began instructing and

choreographing for the Alamo City Performing Arts Association (ACPAA) where she was quickly named as the companies Ballet Master.  Mrs. Hall has recently been asked to direct the live entertainment for San Antonio Riverwalk Association’s Halloween and the nationally syndicated Ford Holiday River Parade. Mrs. Hall has also returned to Fiesta Noche Del Rio where she is currently the Director and Choreographer.  This year, Mrs. Hall has come full circle to where her career began and has succeeded Mr. Conway as the Artistic Director for the Alamo City Performing Arts Association.

​Associate Choreographer  ​

Susan Trevino 
​As Co-Director of the Incarnate Word Dance Department since 1977, and Co-Director of Incarnate Word Ballet School and Ballet Company 1978-2003, Ms.Trevino has brought years of quality dance to performers and students in San Antonio and South Texas area, and throughout the United States. Susan and her husband Buddy were Co-Directors of the Joffrey Workshop Texas in San Antonio from 1978-2017. She taught at the University of Incarnate Word until 2019 as well as many private schools throughout the city. Currently she is Associate Choreographer and Senior Master Teacher at San Antonio School for the Performing Arts.Trained in her native Oklahoma with Jayne Van Wey, Yvonne

Chouteau and Miguel Terekhov, Susan achieved solo and principal status in a number of regional and professional companies including Oklahoma City Civic Ballet, Austin Ballet Theatre, Festival Ballet of San Antonio, Corpus Christi Concert Ballet, Ballet Arts Company of Denver, Rocky Mountain National Ballet Company, and Ruth Page International Ballet Company, Chicago. IL.  As a Choreographer, she hold over 250 original works and theatre production credits as well as collaborating with many ballet companies to choreograph, costume and produce performances. The famous Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo premiered her production of Gaite Parisienne in 1996 at the Danny Kaye Theatre in New York City, and that production has since toured internationally. Continuing to support Regional Dance in America, Ms. Trevino has been on the faculty teaching Ballet, Pointe and Character Dance in many RDA Festival cities.  She has been commissioned by the Nutmeg Ballet, Corpus Christi Concert Ballet, Interlochen School of the Arts, Lawton City Ballet, Victoria Ballet Theatre, Ballet Ensemble of Texas, Midland Festival Ballet, and Alamo City Dance Company to create and premier new and original works. She was named “Outstanding Woman in the Arts” by the San Antonio Express-News in 1986 and has received many prestigious awards over the years. She holds membership with the National Society of the Arts and Letters, the National Association of Schools of Dance and was on the founding board of the San Antonio Arts Council and the curriculum committee for Dance for The Citizens for the High School of the Arts organization. She was inducted into the San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame in the Arts Category.  Happily married for 48 years, Susan and Buddy have a daughter Teresa, a former dancer who now serves the field of veterinary medicine, and two beautiful granddaughters, Natalie Grace
and Emily Rose.

 ​​Company Teacher

Buddy Trevino
A native of San Antonio, Abelardo “Buddy” began his formal dance training at age 11 with the Mexican-America Cultural Exchange Institute of San Antonio. Through the Institute he received a full scholarship to study at the Academia National de Danza in Mexico City. Upon completion of the academic curriculum, Buddy was accepted into the Ballet National de Mexico where he  performed for five years. Returning to the US in 1975, he continued intensive study on scholarship at the University Texas in Austin under

Igor Youskevitch and Stanley Hall. In 1977, Robert Jofrey asked Buddy along with his partner Susan Trevino to develop and host a summer workshop that would attract young, talented dancers from across the country and expose them to the rigors and demands of a professional career in dance. Thirty-five years later, The Jofrey Workshop Texas continues to draw some of the most exceptional dancers in the U.S, Canada and Mexico and has served as a conduit for many dancers who have in turn been accepted into the Jofrey Ballet, Jofrey II Dancers and many other professional companies throughout the world.

 Ballet Master

Michael Landez, MFA (he/him) is originally from San Antonio, Texas where he began his training in ballet and tap. He trained with Buddy and Susan Trevino for numerous summers at the Joffrey Workshop TEXAS before joining American Repertory Ballet under the direction of Douglas Martin. He enjoys performing, making, and teaching about dance through active participation with those that want the experience. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from TexasA&M- San Antonio and certification through the American Ballet Theatre National Teacher Training Curriculum (Pre-Primary - Partnering), Progressing Ballet Technique, and a 200-HR Yoga Teacher Training. After completing a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance at the University of Iowa with a performance emphasis, he is now pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. His research interests lie at the intersection of dance practice, performance studies, dance studies, Latinx studies, and queer studies, where he seeks to embody a more just and equitable sense of performance history in the present. He is a co-founder and current member of the Dance Farm Collective and Ballet Master for the Alamo City Arts. 

Alamo City ​Symphony Viva
Music Director, Conductor​

Joseph Kneer
Conductor and violinist Joseph Kneer currently serves as Music Director of Alamo City Symphony Viva and Conductor of the Trinity Symphony Orchestra at Trinity University. A recent finalist in the 2021 Los Angeles Conducting Competition, Kneer has led many orchestras and ensembles, including the Oberlin Chamber Players, the Mercyhurst String Ensemble and community string chamber music program, the Mercyhurst Civic Orchestra, and the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Chancel Choir in Baltimore. Recent collaborations and engagements include Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with Jinjoo Cho, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with pianist Carolyn True, Poulenc’s Gloria with the Trinity University Choir, a period production of Dido and Aeneas with Trinity’s Opera Workshop, Symphony Viva’s production of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, and the premiere of Roger Zare’s commissioned work Neowise for the TSO in May 2021. In the 2022-2023 season, Joseph will lead a full slate of concerts and ballet performances, including a new production of The Tales of Beatrix Potter with the Alamo City Dance Company, and the TSO's tour of Houston in January. Kneer’s conducting mentors include Larry Rachleff, Donald Schleicher, Neil Thomson, and Scott Weiss.

An active recitalist and chamber musician, Kneer has performed on numerous concert series and in orchestras across the country. In 2015 he completed a regional concert tour of the Brahms violin sonatas with pianist Shirley Yoo and was awarded the Peabody Chamber Music Prize for his work with the Aurora Piano Trio, a group he co-founded in 2008. Kneer holds a B.M. in Violin Performance from Oberlin Conservatory, an M.M. and D.M.A. in Violin Performance from the Peabody Institute, and an M.M. in Theory Pedagogy, also from Peabody. Kneer’s principal violin teachers include Mary West, Milan Vitek, Herbert Greenberg, and Violaine Melançon. Prior teaching appointments include Mercyhurst University and the Peabody Preparatory.

Heart of Texas Concert Band
Music Director, Conductor

R. Mark Rogers received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting from The University of Texas, having previously earned his Masters and Bachelors of Music Education degrees from Texas Tech University. His early teaching career included Graduate Teaching Assistant at Texas Tech University and The University of Texas, and staff arranger for the Longhorn Band; member of the band staff at Spring and Westfield High School (1977); Assistant Professor of Music/Director of Bands at South Plains College (Levelland, TX) 1978-1985; Assistant Professor of Music/Director of Bands at the University of South Alabama (Mobile) 1987-1993.

In 1980, his first published work, the overture to Verdi’s Opera, La Forza del Destino appeared with Southern Music Company, and in 1993 he joined the firm full time as Director of Publications. He continues as Managing Editor of Kaiser/Southern Music Company. His editions of the music of Percy Grainger and John Philip Sousa have entered band repertory worldwide. He has had his works performed by all five of the Washington, DC service bands. Rogers is widely published, and has works represented in the catalogs of Alfred, Boosey and Hawkes, E. C. Schirmer, European American Music, Hal Leonard, Ludwig, and Southern Music Company (United States), as well as G & M Brand, Molenaar, Peer Music, Schott Musik International, and Tierolff Muziekcentrale (Europe). Articles by Rogers have appeared in Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, The Instrumentalist Magazine, and the Texas Bandmasters’ Association Journal. Dr. Rogers is a current ASCAP member with over 60 works listed, (although his total number of collaborative works is much higher) earning royalties both domestic and international. His most recent works include the 5th Symphonies of Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich, complete.
Mark was a guest presenter at the Eastman School of Music on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Eastman Wind Ensemble. He has also guest conducted community and professional bands, regional honor bands and orchestras, and area high school and middle school bands and orchestras. Mark has multi-faceted experience in music theatre, appearing on stage many times, in substantial roles (notably Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady); conducting in the pit, countless times (Evita); as well as playing bassoon in many pit orchestras (Nutcracker). Mark serves on the San Antonio Arts Commission representing City Council District 10, is a member of San Antonio Musicians Society, Association of Concert Bands, Texas Music Educator’s Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, College Band Directors National Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and the International Double Reed Society. Rogers serves on the adjunct faculty of three colleges in south and central Texas; and performs on bassoon and contrabassoon with six regional orchestras. Former members of his private bassoon studio have been accepted and continue their bassoon studies in numerous collegiate music programs and in professional orchestras both in the United States and Europe.
Dr. Rogers is the founding conductor of the 80-piece volunteer community band, the Heart of Texas Concert Band, which has performed over 100 free concerts in the San Antonio area in its 10 year existence. Under his leadership, the band performed the American premier of Menu by Spanish composer, Carlos Pellicer, which led to the commissioning of Euphoric City, written for the Tricentennial of San Antonio. Mark was instrumental in bringing composer Pellicer to San Antonio for the premier in May 2018. Among the notable soloists who have appeared with the band is Barry Hearn, Associate Principal Trombonist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, who performed Johann de Meij’s T-Bone Concerto. Composer de Meij guest conducted the HTxCB at the Texas Bandmasters Association Convention/Clinic in 2012.
Rogers is the proud recipient of the Grainger Medallion, from the International Percy Grainger Society; the Commander’s Award for Excellence from the United States Army Field Band; and several Paul Revere awards for Graphic Excellence, from the Music Publisher’s Association.
His wife, Sudie, plays clarinet in the Heart of Texas Concert Band. The Rogers’ have a musical family, and all participate in the band performances when they can! Mark and Sudie take great delight in their family: Robert and wife Kelly and their daughters, Brynn and Olivia; James and wife Alyssa and their children, Bradley and Hannah; and John and wife Kami, and their sons Ethan and Levi.

Associate Conductor

John Goforth was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. After graduating from Robert E. Lee High School in 1979, he attended Southwest Texas State University where he received his B.M.E. in 1983. After college he married his high school sweetheart, Nancy, and then became the Assistant Band Director at Winston Churchill High School where he taught until 1999. The following year he became the Head Band Director at Douglas MacArthur High School until 2009.
After 25 years of teaching high school band, he held a position at Bradley Middle School until retiring in 2013. During his career as a Band Director, he enthusiastically directed concert, marching and jazz bands. Under his direction and over the years, his bands received many awards at UIL contests, as well as marching, concert and jazz band festivals. He is a past member of TMEA, TBA, Phi Mu Alpha and Kappa Kappa Psi.

Mr. Goforth played in the San Antonio Rodeo Band for 15 years and played at Wurstfest for 16 years. He has played in the pit orchestra at the San Pedro Playhouse Theater and Woodlawn Theater for musicals such as A Chorus Line, Jesus Christ Superstar, Peter Pan and several others. One of his favorite accomplishments is that many of his former students continued to pursue music after high school with many of them now being Band Directors and professional musicians.
Since retiring, he now teaches private lessons to low brass students in NEISD. Mr. Goforth has two children, a daughter Barbara who lives and works as an RN in Seattle and a son Wesley who just graduated from UTSA with a degree in Music Education and is member of the Heart of Texas Band. Concert Band. In his free time he enjoys playing golf and traveling around the United States in their RV.