MUSYCA Children's Choir Presents: MUSYCA at the Movies - Edinburgh Concert

Come join us for an exciting evening featuring the talented MUSYCA Children's Choir as they take you on a musical cinematic journey! The concert will be held at St. Giles Cathedral, a beautiful cathedral that will enhance the experience. Get ready to be amazed by the talent of these young performers as they showcase their vocal skills and passion for music and cinema. This is an epic event you definitely won't want to miss!

Jerusalem....................... C. Hubert H. Parry
Chariots of Fire (1981)

Double Trouble................... John Williams
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Sabbath Prayer...........Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

I Say a Little Prayer...........Burt Bacharach and Hal David
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

And So It Goes………………..Billy Joel
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Lost Without You (2016)

Bella's Finals (mashup)...........arr. Ed Boyer, Ben Bram and Deke Sharon
Pitch Perfect (2012)

I Dreamed a Dream……………….Claude-Michel Schönberg
Les Misérables (2012)

Cups (Campfire Version)................arr. Deke sharon
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

Dancing Queen……………………... ABBA
Mamma Mia! (2008)

Star Wars............. John Williams

I'm Just Ken.................Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
Barbie (2023)

A Million Dreams……………Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
The Greatest Showman (2017)

Puttin' on the Ritz…………………..Irving Berlin
Puttin' on the Ritz (1930)

What a Wonderful World......................George David Weiss and Bob Thiele
Madagascar (2005)

Thank You for the Music.............ABBA
Mamma Mia! (2008)

Founded in 2010, MUSYCA Children’s Choir has become California's leading performing arts organization for youth, which appeared at the world's top venues, performed in Film and on TV and collaborated with America's preeminent artists and composers.

MUSYCA Children's Choir is a multi-level, sequential choral music education program for children and youth, guided by an exceptional faculty. Located in Los Angeles, California, MUSYCA brings together gifted young people, ages 4-18 to create a community of singers built on respect, love for music, and artistic excellence. The mission of MUSYCA Children's Choir is to provide the highest quality of music education to Children and Youth of all religious, ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds through study and performance of outstanding choral repertoire. The group is dedicated to diversity, access, and service to community.

The lives of MUSYCA’s choristers are enriched through rehearsals, concerts, and special performances during each season. The group has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Greek Theatre, rocked the international conference of entertainment marketing professionals (Promax/BDA), appeared with Rita Moreno at the Alzheimer's Association charity ball, starred in film, recorded soundtracks, collaborated with popular recording artists, and has been invited to sing at Disneyland and the Universal Studios. MUSYCA recently toured Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Australia, and New Zealand. Summer 2024 marks the group’s first tour of England and Scotland, and they are looking to perform American folk music, gospel, spirituals, classical selections and more.

MUSYCA reaches massive audiences, including more than 375 million households around the world in when performing atthe internationally televised Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards. The choir performed the hit song The Man, singing and dancing alongside with the artist Aloe Blacc. Musyca has collaborated with composers Michael Giacchino, Jeff Kryka, Alan Silvestri, Glen Ballard, Danny Bensi, Jamie Christopherson, Nuno Malo, Thomas Parisch, Arthur B. Rubinstein, and Dan Romer; recording artists Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Franklin Jonas, Brooke Josephson, Portugal The Man, Slick Naim, Rihanna, Danny Brown, Camila Cabello, Jennifer Hudson, Ella Mai, Zedd, Good Charlotte,

Beto Hale, Lorem Ipsums, Newsboys, Nikita Presnyakov, Princess Superstar, Stephen, Scooter, Timeflies, Raury, Danny Swain (Danny!), Scooter, Alpine Universe, Yung Bae, Ayokay, Mikel Jollett and Airborne Toxic Event, Hollywood Undead, Christopher Cross, Dave Koz, Johnnie Mikel, Alexander Palmer, Luke Christopher; producers DJ Mustard, Focus..., Fredwreck, Mark Needham, Malay, Nathan Lim, Paul White, Sean Gould, and Zakk Cervini. MUSYCA is featured in Buid-A-Bear Kids Volume I album Workshop Jams.

MUSYCA's televised performances on Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show, ABC's The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration, NBC's The Voice, Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, LA County Holiday Celebration, and Hallmark's Home and Family Show have been seen in millions of households worldwide. Our Boys' Choir is featured in the motion picture Boy Erased soundtrack, starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russel Crowe. The choir sings in the sci-fi movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, directed by Luc Besson and starring Rihanna. MUSYCA kids sing and act in ABC's TV show Fresh Off the Boat and star in Black Friday Orphans: The Musical, produced by Funny or Die. The young artists appeared on Netflix's original series The OA and Hallmark Channel's Home and Family Show, sang at the LA Times Festival of Books, and worked with the Los Angeles Center Theatre Group. MUSYCA choristers appear in Borderlands 3 Make Peace on Earth commercial, LensCrafters TV commercial See.Good.Daily, Gap Holiday TV commercial, and Audi cars TV commercial. The popular animated series Masha and the Bear and Badanamu feature performances by MUSYCA students. Hear our beautiful rendition of several beloved Christmas carols in Hallmark Channel's Enchanted Christmas movie. MUSYCA Children's Choir can be heard on the soundtracks of Moonlight Blade video game.

The choir performed at Shomrei Torah Synagogue, Granada Hills Baptist Church, The Soraya (SF Valley Performing Arts Center), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Disney Hall, El Rey Theatre, Zipper Hall, Microsoft Theater, Staples Center (Crypto.com Arena), the White House, Carnegie Hall, Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral and at many more venues locally, nationally, and around the world.

In addition to MUSYCA's traditional Winter and Spring choral concerts, the choir appears at charitable events, celebrations, and festivals. The choir collaborates with composers, conductors, musical artists, choirs and orchestras to present concerts to the public. MUSYCA's collaborations include work with artists Kanye West, Camila Cabello, Jennifer Hudson, Ella Mai, Timeflies, and Zedd; composers Joe Hisaishi and Arthur Rubinstein, performances with Kanye West's Sunday Service Choir, led by Jason White, Burbank Chorale and Orchestra, directed by Dr. Mikhail Shtangrud, Hollywood Film Studio Orchestra, LA Opera, led by James Conlon, and Symphony in the Glen. The choir supports charitable causes with performances at Save a Child's Heart Foundation Gala, UNICEF Gala, Operation Smile Gala, Brigitte & Bobby Sherman Children's Foundation Gala, and Orthopaedic Institute for Children Gala. MUSYCA serves Los Angeles County and neighboring cities, San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita, Beverly Hills, Glendale, Burbank, Pasadena, La Crescenta, La Canada, Westlake, Agoura Hills, Simi Valley Oxnard, Camarillo, Torrance, Long Beach, Malibu, Santa Monica, and West Los Angeles.

Dr. Mikhail Shtangrud

Artistic Director/Founder

Dr. Mikhail Shtangrud is the Artistic Director of MUSYCA Children's Choir. He also serves as the Director of Vocal Ensembles at the Colburn School of Performing Arts and is the Artistic Director of the Burbank Chorale. Dr. Shtangrud's students sing on concert and operatic stages, appear in film and on TV, star on Broadway and at the Los Angeles Music Center and collaborate with leading composers, musical artists and producers. His vocal ensembles performed at the top venues in the US and around the world.

Born in Moscow, Russia, to a family of choral conductors, Mikhail took violin and piano training at the Liadov Children’s Music School and sang with the Big Children’s Choir of the Russian State Radio & Television. Misha later studied choral conducting at the Moscow State Music College of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He earned a Doctoral degree in Music Education from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Shtangrud is featured in the BBC documentary , which tells the story of the Big Children's Choir of the state radio and TV in the former Soviet Union, "What became of the Soviet Union's child stars?"

Dr. Anna Krendel

Executive Director/Founder

Dr. Anna Krendel is the Founder and the Executive Director of MUSYCA Children's Choir. Her versatile piano performance career spans from recitals, chamber music concerts, and choral performances to studio work and movie soundtracks. She enjoys working with producers, artists and composers as a music contractor & coordinator, who books talented musicians for film & television, soundtracks, recordings and live performances in Los Angeles.

A renowned music educator and piano pedagogue, Dr.Krendel served as the district coordinator and president-elect of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) and is an adjudicator for the Royal Conservatory Music Development Program and Music Teachers' Association of California piano competitions. Born in the Ukraine, Dr. Krendel studied the piano performance at the Kharkov Conservatory. She completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at the University of Southern California, studio of Dr. Alan Smith. Dr. Krendel has earned her Master’s Degree in piano performance at California State University Northridge, where she studied with Dr. Frank McGinnis and Ms. Françoise Regnat. Dr. Krendel is the winner of several competitions and a recipient of numerous university and community awards, including the Jacob and Bronislaw Gimpel Memorial Award.

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