Embedded Files
Joey Gore is the director of the Wilmington Celebration Choir and the president of Pillar Music Group. Music has always been a huge part of his life as he started playing the piano when he was only 8 years old. He attended Cape Fear Community College and then moved to Nashville, TN. in 1983 with his first professional job in music with the Legendary Naomi Sego. In October of 1996, Joey came to Wrightsboro UMC as their pianist and then later as the Minister of worship and music.
Pillar Music Group was started soon after and the Pillar Records Choir was formed, later renamed the Wilmington Celebration Choir. Over the years, Joey has recorded and produced for many local, regional and national artists from the Wilmington Celebration Choir to the Anchormen, and Lynda Randle. The WCC choir has traveled both locally and abroad doing concerts of their own music and working with many top gospel artists including The Hoppers, Carmen, Jessy Dixon, Lynda Randle, The Talleys, Karen Peck & New River, Bill Gaither and many more. In 2011 eighteen members of the WCC went to Cape Town, South Africa to sing and work in the AIDS and Homeless communities.
Today Joey travels all over the United States and around the world spreading the gospel through music with the choir and also as personal pianist for Lynda Randle, and uses his musical talent with Christian artist's Karen Peck & New River, The Anchormen, and many others.
Karl Marzolf is the Director of Music Ministry at Pine Valley United Methodist Church.
He attended both West Virginia University and The Cleveland Institute of Music where he earned a Bachelor and then a Master’s degree in music. Karl has been a church music director since 1995 and has been with PVUMC since 2003. He directs all of the adult music ensembles, oversees the music department, leads worship each Sunday morning and is in charge of all of the technology for the church. Karl and his wife, Katy Jean, have three beautiful daughters, Karen, Erica and Amy.
Scott York is the Minister of Music at Pine Valley Baptist Church. He attended both University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary where he earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music. Scott has been a church music director since 1987 and has been at Pine Valley Baptist Church since 2009. He oversees the entire Music Ministry and directs all the adult choirs and ensembles, leads worship every Sunday and is in charge of all A/V, media and technology in the Music Department. Scott does all the video and multimedia for our production each year and edits and produces the DVD. He and his wife, Amy, have three sons, Alex, Taylor & Jarod and a daughter-in-law, Laura.
Report abuse