Southern York County Life

Chicago opera singer moves to Stewartstown

Yvonne Koyzis, bride of Stewartstown Borough councilman, Guy Hook, has come to Stewartstown to bring a little culture to the area. She is a teacher of song. Having graduated from Northwestern University with a Masters Degree in Music, she sang with the Chicago Symphony Chorus for 13 years. During that time, she recorded and traveled with the Chicago Symphony, sang on Grammy-winning albums and performed at the Berlin Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall. Ten years ago she established The Singing School in the suburbs of Chicago in order to help others to experience the joy of being able to sing.

Currently, she is accepting students at the Koyzis Voice Studio, located in Stewartstown. Her primary goal is to establish a successful voice studio where aspirants of all ages and talents can learn to sing. She claims that, with the proper instruction, almost anyone can learn to sing. She also offers beginning piano instruction. Ms. Koyzis is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and a voting member of The Grammys. A ‘light lyric soprano’, her musical interests are widely varied. In addition to a love of classical music, and singing in French, Italian, and German, she loves show tunes, rock, old time songs and bluegrass. Ms. Koyzis, in fact, met her husband at a bluegrass festival in Virginia.

Posted by guyshook on 11/04/2002 at 02:19 PM in News

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