Javelina Band Hall of Fame
Bryce Taylor
Bryce Taylor
Bryce Taylor is a Texas band director with fifty two years of teaching experience. The first ten of those were at Three Rivers where the school band was named as the first Class “A” Honor Band in TMEA state level auditions in 1959. The next thirty years were spent as music supervisor and high school band director for the Alice ISD where bands taught by him earned twenty nine consecutive UIL Sweepstakes awards and placed in the top TMEA Honor Band auditions for class “5A” twelve times. The Alice band was one of the first five high school bands to be awarded the Sousa Flag of Honor by The Sousa Foundation and is listed on their national Roll of Honor for high school bands in existence between 1960 and 1980.
A partial listing of his accomplishments and honors include-Past President of TMEA, Runner-up for Texas State Teacher of the Year, recipient of the National Federation of State High School Associations Music Educator award, a member of the Phi Beta Mu Hall of Fame, named Texas Bandmaster of the Year by the Texas Bandmasters Association and is an elected member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association where he served as president in 1999-2000.
Currently he serves as music consultant for the Alice public schools, teaches music education classes at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and is musical director/conductor of The Corpus Christi Wind Symphony – an adult community band that provides free public concerts in the Coastal Bend area each year.