About Myself

Actress-singer

Ms. Sikora (Roxana Mori) studied voice in her native Perú with the famous coloratura soprano Lucrecia Sarria. At the age of 16 she began to sing professionally with the international company of zarzuelas and operettas under the direction of Faustino García, touring South America. Her zarzuela repertoire included about 60 zarzuelas, operettas and revistas. At 18 she received the prestigious "Pluma de Plata" award for outstanding performances presented by the circle of journalist. At the age of 19 she moved to Long Island. After arriving in the US, she began to study music at Stony Brook University. Since coming to Cortland, she has studied voice with Marion Hanson. Since 1995, Ms. Sikora has been the section leader and has appeared as soloist with the Choral Union under the direction of Stephen B. Wilson performing Haydn's The Creation, Handel's Messiah, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Bach's Magnificat, Fauré's Requiem, J. Rutter's Magnificat, Saint Saen's Christmas Oratorio, Mozart’s Verspae Solennes de Confessore; Beethoven's Mass in C and the Elegisher Gesang. In May of 2011 she appeared in Carmina Burana.

Her international performances with Stephen Wilson have been in San José, Costa Rica (where she presented this program of Piazzolla's vocal tangos for Veritas University) and Kingston, Canada. In New York City she has performed the main roles in the zarzuelas Luisa Fernanda and La verbena de la Paloma. Together with Stephen Wilson they created the artistic enterprise Los Tangueros. Under this enterprise, she has presented the inaugural concert for the new Center for the Arts in Homer, a mini-concert in Cortland for the Arts in the Park and a Full Concert at Queen’s University in Canada. Under the rubric of Alma Andina (multicultural music) Ms. Sikora has made presentations at the Ithaca Festival with the appearance of two new voices in the group: Skye Wilson and the celebrated prodigy Emmanuel Sikora. Together with Stephen Wilson, Dr. Sikora has presented an eclectic series of music at different venues. Gina Sikora has been a regular participant in the celebrations of the Latino Heritage Month, in Ithaca, during the month of October. In Central New York she has presented two concerts at LeMoyne College: An Anthology of Tango and Las Canciones Populares de García Lorca. In 2006 she formed the enterprise ZarzuelaCNY.Org [Concert and Lyric Artists] and produced and staged a full performance of Antología de la Zarzuela and Cuba Canta y Baila: music and dances of the classical Cuban repertoire; bringing to Central New York famous Hispanic lyric voices of NYC. In 2009, Ms. Sikora joined the troupe of Gringos Flamencos (now dissolved), as the cantaora, entering in the difficult but fiery world of Flamenco. 

In recent years Ms. Sikora had made a tourné which included six cities in the North and South of Perú.

Her CDs, "The Music of García Lorca" and "Antología de la zarzuela" are now available through cortlandmusic.org/

Gina Sikora, Ph.D.

Gina Sikora earned her doctorate in comparative literature from Binghamton University. She also got two graduate certificates one in Translation and the other in Medieval Studies, with emphasis in Romance Philology and Oral Literacy. She also holds a degree in Journalism earned in Lima, Perú. Dr. Sikora combines her teaching activities with academic and cultural programs for her students implementing web-enhanced and media-assisted Spanish curricula.

Since 2001 Dr. Sikora has taught at Tompkins Cortland Community College being a part-time faculty for the Foreign Languages and the English departments. At TC3 she has implemented online language courses and is a member of the College Senate.