Iggy Kopka

Iggy is a retired Senior Research Fellow from Merck Research Laboratories. He started his singing career when he was eight years old at St. John the Baptist Greek Catholic Church in Syracuse, NY. He was actively involved in choral and theater productions in high school in Wheaton, MD. He later sang with the University of Maryland Madrigal Singers under the direction of Dr. Rose Marie Grentzer and Dr. Harold Spivacke, followed by a short stint with the Georgetown University Glee Club under the direction of Paul Hume. In his postgraduate travels, he sang with the Michigan State University Choral directed by Dr. Charles K. Smith and with the New Haven Choral in Connecticut with its new director, Dr. Janos Horvath.

After moving to New Jersey, Iggy sang with the Ukrainian Choir "Dumka", which in 1985 and 1988, toured Western Europe in a series of concerts to familiarize the Ukrainian émigré community with seldom heard secular and sacred Ukrainian choral music. After a 20 year choral hiatus, Iggy returned to singing after his wife Sandra and their five children, suggested that the choral community would be better served by taking his singing out of the shower and into the Caritas ensemble. Iggy, Sandra and their children live in Union Township, Hunterdon County and are parishioners at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Pittstown, NJ.