Society Profiles
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Jozik was born in Oxford. After reading music at the University of York he won a postgraduate scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier, Royal Overseas League and Richard Tauber competitions and winner of the South East Arts competition, which led to his debut at Wigmore Hall. As a conductor and animateur Jozik has devised and implemented projects for a variety of arts organisations including Making Music, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera, ENO Baylis and the De La Warr Pavilion. He is a national choral trainer for Youth Music and vocal project co-ordinator for East Sussex Music service. He was appointed musical director of the East Sussex Community Choir in 2004 and Hailsham Choral Society in 2005. As a singer Jozik has performed roles for ENO, Royal Opera, Glyndebourne, Opera Factory, Garsington and Grange Park. In Europe he has sung in Paris, Vienna, Zurich, Madrid, Antwerp, Aix en Provence and Lisbon. He has sung at the Proms, and with the BBC Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia and English Chamber orchestras. CD recordings include three for Hyperion records, the premiere of Turnage's The Silver Tassie for Deutsche Gramophonon and the Paray Mass with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, which was nominated for a Grammy award. |
Jozik Koc Musical Director |
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All singers know how much help
a good accompanist can be, and Marion comes right at the top of the
class. She constantly plays down her own abilities, but we all
know how much she helps in rehearsals. Nothing seems to faze
her, and she has that invaluable quality of emphasising the part she
can hear is having problems! Marion is the
accompanist for several local singing groups and is Organist at Hellingly Parish Church.
As well as being an experienced rehearsal accompanist, Marion is
also an accompanist for concert performances on the piano and organ,
either as a soloist or as part of an orchestra. Her major works with
Hailsham Choral Society include Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Vivaldi
Gloria and Brahms Requiem. |
Marion Nicholls Accompanist |
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Throughout Barbara’s life, music has
been a hobby in any shape or form – madrigal groups at school and
college, choral singing and pantomime. She learned to play the piano and
violin whilst at school and has since learned to play the
clarinet. Barbara joined the Hailsham Choral Society at the tender
age of 23. For ten years she was also a member of 'Hamelsham Singers'
– a prestigious octet. She formed her own octet called 'Prospect
Singers' and at school, she combined her work as a PE and Business
Studies teacher with playing in the school orchestra, directing
school productions and was voice coach for the soloists. She has sung with the Eastbourne
Symphony Orchestra and Choir, and under Kenneth Pont and Sir David
Willcocks with the Mayfield Festival Choir. Barbara was choir
mistress and organist at Dallington Church for 10 years and she is
currently one of the organists at Hailsham Methodist Church. Barbara
was appointed Assistant Musical Director of Hailsham Choral Society
in 1996, and took up the baton full-time in 1999, going back to
Assistant in 2001. |
Barbara Edwards Chorus Director |
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