Jozik Kotz is a distinguished bass baritone who has also worked as an educator and as Musical Director for many local choirs including Hailsham Choral Society.
Jozik Kotz was born in Oxford, one of ten children of Polish-Australian parents. He read Music at York University and was a choral scholar in the choir of York Minster before winning a postgraduate scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. While studying at the Guildhall he was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier, Royal Overseas League and Richard Tauber competitions.
In 1993 he was the winner of the South East Arts competition, which led to his debut recital at the Wigmore Hall and many song recitals throughout the UK with the pianist Rebecca Holt.
In the early part of his career Jozik sang regularly in the choirs of St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey and with the BBC Singers, the Monteverdi Choir and the Schutz Choir, with conductors including Sir Roger Norrington and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Jozik began his career in opera in the Glyndebourne chorus and has subsequently performed roles with English National Opera, Royal Opera, Glyndebourne, Opera Factory, Garsington Opera and Grange Park Opera. His European opera experience includes appearances in Paris, Vienna, Zurich, Madrid, Aix-en-Provence and Lisbon.
Jozik has sung as a soloist at the Proms and at all the major London concert halls, with orchestras including the BBC Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia and English Chamber orchestras.
His CD recordings include baroque cantatas for Hyperion, Turnage’s The Silver Tassie and Gavin Bryar’s Dr Ox’s Experiment for Deutsche Grammophon, and Paray’s Mass with the Scottish National Orchestra, which was nominated for a Grammy award.
In addition to his singing career Jozik has worked as a choral animateur for organisations such as Youth Music, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, the Royal Opera, Making Music, East Sussex music service and Glyndebourne education. He has given masterclasses at the universities of Kent and Surrey and at many leading independent schools.
As a choral conductor Jozik has given over one hundred and fifty performances with a wide range of choirs including the Sackville Singers, East Sussex Community Choir, East Sussex young voices and Hailsham Choral Society.
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