COSTA RICA TOUR 2026

Musique Sur La Mer

Founded in 1980 to provide musical opportunities for talented junior high students in Colorado Springs School District 11, the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony Association (CSYSA) began with 70 musicians and one concert. Today, CSYSA includes ten ensembles—ranging from beginning strings to advanced jazz, wind, and full orchestras—and serves about 350 students each year through auditions. The Mozart String Project adds another 150 beginning string students at sites across the city. In all, more than 500 young musicians from over 60 schools across the Pikes Peak region, including Pueblo, Limon, Castle Rock, Peyton, and Cañon City, participate in CSYSA programs. The Association’s mission is to inspire young musicians to lead, grow artistically, and share exceptional music that connects cultures. The Association presents more than 60 performances each year across regional, national, and international stages. Its educational program includes music camps, performance tours, leadership classes, a solo competition, chamber ensembles, exposure to the full range of orchestral literature, and community partnerships. It was during a tour to New Zealand that the organization adopted its motto from a Maori tribesman, “Through Music We Are One.”

Repertoire

Selections from the following:
  • Four: Miles Davis (Arr. Mike Tomaro)
  • Minor Swing from the Middle: Bill Liston
  • Manteca, Gillespie, Fuller, and Gonzales (Arr. Mike Tomaro)
  • Basie Eyes: Shorty Rogers (Ed. Bob Curnow)
  • Don’t Git Sassy: Thad Jones
  • Gregory is Here: Horace Silver (Arr. Michael Phillip Mossman)
  • Dawdlin’: Sammy Nestico
  • Doozy: Benny Carter

The Conductor

Maestro Marcy A. Sudock is the founding director and conductor of Southern California based Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras, including the Musique Sur La Mer Orchestra, Chamber Ensembles, Youth Symphony Orchestra and Honors Chamber Orchestra. She is a professional orchestra conductor, violinist, violin instructor, and music coach.

A graduate of California State University, Long Beach, Music Performance, Marcy Sudock studied violin with Vera Barstow, Ken Goldsmith, Pavol Farkas, Manuel Compinsky and Robert Sanov. Maestro Sudock has furthered her education through the Starling-DeLay Violin Symposium at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.

As a violinist, Marcy has performed with a cadre of musical luminaries including:
Luciano Pavoratti – Andrea Bocelli – Lou Rawls – Lionel Richie – Reba McIntyre – Paula Abdul – Freddie Hubbard – Leonard Penario – Marnie Nixon – Sammy Fayne – Neville Mariner – Richard and Karen Carpenter, to name but a few.

Ms. Sudock has performed with numerous symphonies, chamber orchestras and ensembles, recording studios and shows throughout the USA and abroad. Mrs. Sudock is a public speaker on music, artistic development, the power of positive action and empowering people to be kind, responsible, joyous, successful, fulfilled human beings. She is the author of the best-selling book on wedding music, My Wedding Music Planner and the producer/violinist on the CD, My Wedding Music.

Driven by her passion for life, family, music, and serving humanity, Marcy Sudock, strives to make the world more peaceful, kind and joyful utilizing positive actions and the international language of music. Music is the path, Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras is the vehicle.

About Musique Sur La Mer

Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras (MSLMO) has been inspiring excellence, leadership, and community service since 2000. Marcy A. Sudock is the founding director. Maestro Sudock is a violinist, music educator, and conductor of note. The mission to empower musicians, create peace through the international language of music, and community service has worked hand in hand with strong ethics, responsibility, musicality, education, passion and commitment.

MSLMO is based in Long Beach, California and serves children, teens, and adults from both Los Angeles and Orange Counties. MSLMO performs locally and abroad.

Global Vision:

Musique Sur La Mer celebrates cultural diversity with performances in:

  • Austria (Vienna, Salzburg, Eisenstadt)
  • Czech Republic (Prague)
  • France (Nice, Cannes, Paris)
  • Monaco (Royal Cathedral)
  • New Zealand (Christchurch, Auckland, Hastings)
  • Costa Rica (San Jose, Arenal)
  • England (London, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Gloucester)
  • Wales (Caerphilly)
  • Australia (Sydney, Woolaware, Manly, Brisbane, New Sounth Wales)

MSLM raises funds and/or awareness:

  • Australia’s Royal School for Blind and Deaf Children
  • Austria’s Hand in Hand for children with disabilities
  • Costa Rica Reforestation Project
  • Maori Village in New Zealand
  • Costa Rica San Jose School for Children with Disabilities
  • Austria’s Cantus MM concert to help build a school in Africa
  • Czech Republic’s Podebrady Cardiac Recovery Spa
  • Wales’ Museum of Welsh Coal Mining
  • Humanitarian Relief For Ukraine

The professional Musique Sur La Mer Orchestra performed in the Amaryllis-Fleming Concert Hall of the Royal College of London as the American tribute in honor of the wedding of HRH Prince William and Catherine Middleton raising funds for the American Soup Kitchen of London and for the Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II raising funds for the Diamond Jubilee Charitable Trust.

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