ABOUT
Striking a chord (SaC)
from Jarmila Gorna,
the Artistic Director of SaC
Dream & Aspiration
So often, in my personal and professional life I come across people who feel their lives are empty and purposeless and their journey seems aimless. There is a need to fill that vacuum and I would like to help.
There are others who seek and enjoy different sensations and new experiences that enhance their lives on a more fulfilling level. For these too, I might have something to offer.
My name is Jarmila Gorna. I am a female entrepreneur, motivator, inspirer, music and video producer, composer, vocalist, pianist, recording engineer, songwriter, and inventor/developer of The Gorna Method taught at The Gorna Institute for Creative Approach to Music (GICAM), and more! I have created Striking a Chord to continue inspiring and empowering through my unique spiritually charged take on music. My motto:‘Music and Beyond!’
Meet the Trustees
Dr shalom springer
chair of trustees
Dr Shalom Springer is a graduate of Talmudic colleges and holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and a PhD in Mathematical Physics from two prestigious London universities. Following his retirement as a senior official after a 26 year career at the bank of England he embarked on a new career in teaching/lecturing. He has lectured extensively in Jewish philosophy and mathematics over some 20 years. Significant involvement in communal activity in various fields including provision of First Aid to local communities and as Chairperson of Trustees for Schools and a charity for helping disadvantaged children and is president of “Bris” an institution that regulates the practice of circumcision in the UK.
Rabbi Avraham Citron
TRUSTEE
Rabbi Avraham Citron grew up in California and was raised in a family where teaching and sharing the joy of Judaism in practice was fundamental.
Avraham studied in Talmudical colleges in LA, Jerusalem, NY and Melbourne and received certification as a Rabbi at the Central Chabad Yeshiva (Talmudical college).
Avraham and his wife Devora were the Rabbinic team in Northern Ireland and, for the last fifteen years, in Stoke Newington, London where they currently live with their children. They are both involved to a tremendous degree in pastoral work in their community which they lead and care for with almost parental concern and love.
Mrs Ruth Lewis
Trustee
Ruth Lewis is a wife, mother and grandmother, who spends her time between the U.K. and Israel. She has been involved in the field of Special Needs education for many years, with a focus on scientific and environmental education.
She has an honours degree in English Literature and Philosophy, with postgraduate diplomas in Special Education and Psychometric Testing. She is a keen walker who has completed a trek across Southern England, and has a deep appreciation for, and knowledge of, the English countryside, especially its invertebrate and fungal life. At home she gets enormous pleasure from cultivating her small but precious garden. She and her husband are blessed with grandchildren who are a constant source of delight.
Meet the volunteers
David Farren
Artwork designer & musician
was born in 1959 at an early age and in the usual way, and has always been an artist and a musician.
A founder member of Ska'n'B band Bad Manners while still at school and subsequently spent seven years on the road with them.
Became a freelance illustrator and spent twenty years producing commissioned work for reproduction - book covers, record covers, posters, press ads, billboards, packaging, video covers, book illustrations and more. Was represented first by Aircraft, and then Folio Artist's Agents.
He played double bass in some fine bands and with some fine people during these years, notably The Jam Professors, The Incredibly Strange Film Band and Tina Pinder. These days - every once in a while - he's proud to be one of the Drop Dead Suits for Edna Million (And The Drop Dead Suits) and one of The Illegal Oysters (a garage bluegrass band named after the late, great Gourds from Austin, Texas).
Began exploring digital art, and at the same time helped form The Rollin Stoned - the second Greatest Rock'n' Roll Band in the world, performing as Keith Retched (guitar and vocals).
Clients
World League of American Football, Welsh Rugby Team, Whyte and Mackay Scotch Whisky, Gerry Anderson creator of Thunderbirds, VPD Videos, Sega, Penguin Books, Pan Books, Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins, Random House, Kingfisher, Gollancz, Abacus, Franklin Watts, Dorling Kindersley, Century, Oxford University Press, You Magazine, Punch, Neon, Health Service Journal, Communications International, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, Reader's Digest, British Telecom, Scotts Porage Oats, Iceland, British Airways, London Transport, Philips and many private commissions.