Biographies

Lloica Czackis was born in Germany to Argentinian parents and has lived in Venezuela, Argentina, England and now in France. She studied singing and choral conducting in Buenos Aires and at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Vera Rosza and David Pollard. Her large repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to the avant-garde, from opera to art songs, and from folk to tango. Lloica has appeared as a soloist in numerous recital halls in the UK, Europe and Argentina. Since 1999 she conceives and performs programmes on Latin American and European 20th Century music, cabaret and tango. Her sell-out show Tangele: The Pulse of Yiddish Tango was granted a JMI Millennium Award in 2002, leading to concerts in London, Brighton, Vienna, Paris and Brussels. She has also presented her research in illustrated lectures across the UK and in an article published in the Jewish Quarterly in 2003.

David Bloch was on the music faculty of Portland State University (USA) from 1964 until 1973, where he founded and directed The Group for New Music, one of the campus-based contemporary music ensembles supported at that time by the Rockefeller Foundation’s Arts Program. He moved to Israel in 1973 and in 1986 established the Terezín Music Memorial Project. Since then, and with his colleagues in a second Group for New Music, he has presented concerts in Israel, North America, Europe, Russia and Uzbekistan. He is producer and artistic director of the Terezín Music Anthology, a series of ten CDs documenting the surviving music composed and arranged in Terezín. He is editor of a large collection of Terezín music and preparing it for publication by Boosey & Hawkes/Bote & Bock. He was music consultant for documentary films produced by BBC and Swedish Television, Visible Pictures and Alliance Atlantis. Bloch has published articles on Terezín music, lectures in Israel and abroad and is Professor of Musicology at Tel Aviv University. He is music advisor for Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, and for the Terezín International Music Center in the Czech Republic.

This programme has been performed in:

- 23 September 2003 (Lloica Czackis & David Bloch).
               Brundibár Project, Chetham's School of Music, Manchester. 
- 28 October 2003 (Lloica Czackis & Miriam Brickman).
               St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, London.
- 6 May 2004 (Lloica Czackis & Andrew Quartermain). 
               Terezín Day, Leamington Festival, UK.
- 26 October 2004 (Lloica Czackis & David Mazower)
               Holocaust Centre, UK.
- 12 November 2005 (Lloica Czackis & Daniel Navia)
               Festival de Voix Etoufees, Ivry sur Seine, France