Music Director & Conductor
Mark Rogers
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.
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.
