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Mandaluyong Childrens Chorus - Soundspace 2

The multi-awarded Mandaluyong Childrens Choir under the baton of maestro Sebastian L. Trinidad.

 

The Mandaluyong Children’s Choir was formed in 1999 as a training program that aims to develop and nurture the musically gifted among the underprivileged in Mandaluyong City, and since then, it has become a spring of hope and pride for the town folks with its talented trove of 8 to 17 year old boys and girls, most of which are sourced from public schools. MCC has drawn a proud list of achievements. Topping the roster is representing the Philippines and winning a silver medal in the Children's Choir Category and a bronze medal in Musica Contemporanea Category in the 2nd World Choir Olympics in

Busan, South Korea. Only Selfless Love, a music video which featured the young choir internationalists, was adjudged Best MTV in the 2002 Catholic Mass Media Awards and later became a finalist at the prestigious 2004 New York Festival. This feat was reprised in 2007, when their MTV, the Power to Unite, again, won the Best MTV award in the 2007 Catholic Mass Media

Awards. Part of their First North American Tour, they became the first Filipino choir to win at the International Choral Kathaumixw in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada. In 2005, the choir had the chance to represent the Philippines in the 2005 World Children’s Choir Festival in China.

 

To date, they have independently produced seven albums: Unang Hirit (2000), Angelic Christmas (2000), Angeli Domini (2002), Symphony of Earth Angels (2002), Childhood (2004), Haleluya!: The Asian Soundscape (2005) and Pasko Sa Langit (2005). The Earth Angels had appeared in Concert Seasons of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and have had engagements with

the Manila Symphony Orchestra II and the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra.

Specializing in the innovations in Contemporary Choir Music, the MCC continues to research for breakthroughs of Asian composers as well as its Western counterparts. Materials collected and commissioned find its way into the adventurous programming of the choir.

 

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