PSV BOOTCAMPs 2024-2025:

SONGWRITING, SYNC & MUSIC BUSINESS

STAGE TWO

Sasha Lopatko

Ekaterina Levitskaya

Anzhelika Khachatryan

Diana Marchenkova

Karina Daragan

Sofa Vilch

Alexandra Akimova

Alisa Kachaikina

Anna Madni

Elizaveta Mavrinskaya

Valeria Tabakova

Anastasia Zarovkina

Layla Tekeeva

Julia Lipkanskaya

Darya Grushevskaya

Ellina Guzhva

Ekaterina Kuzmina

Eugene Li

Anastasia Dorozhkina

Darya Chumakova

Kira Gogoladze

Anastasia Anton

Alina Rostotskaya

Maria Antoshkina

Kira Weinstein

Valeria Rogova

SCHEDULE

All classes will be offered over Zoom.

Broadcasts are scheduled for 9AM, Pacific Standard Time, corresponding to mid-evening, Moscow time.

CAMP ONE: SONGWRITING (Fall/Winter 2024)

October 29, 2024

November 5, 2024

November 12, 2024

November 29, 2024 (playback)

CAMP TWO: SYNCHRONIZATION (Spring 2025)

DATES TBD

CAMP THREE: MUSIC BUSINESS (Fall 2025)

DATES TBD

BENEFITS, LANGUAGES, LOCATION, AND COST

For three bootcamps in 2024-25, songwriters, musicians, and artists from the US and Russia will come together, thanks to a collaborative program between UCLA, PSV and SongwriterCamps in Los Angeles. Each of the three camps consists of 24 Russian participants. Together with award-winning mentors, participants will learn the fundamentals of songwriting for the LA market, working to real-world briefs from television, cinema, advertising, and the synch industries.

BENEFITS

learn vital skills from industry experts and award-winning mentors
apply proven songwriting techniques from career professionals in California to real-world projects
build new songwriting networks with successful music industry professionals
get real-time feedback on the composition process.

LANGUAGES / LOCATION

Although a simultaneous translation will be offered throughout, it is expected that participants have a working knowledge of English. The geographic location of participants is unimportant.

COST

The PSV bootcamps are always free. This initiative was created by a US citizen in 2007 and has always been humanitarian and educational in nature. It has no political agenda.

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ORGANIZERS

DAVID MACFADYEN

Professor of Musicology, Music Business, and Comparative Literature at UCLA. Author of multiple books on the history – and future – of Russian popular music. For more information, see here.

PAM SHEYNE

Multi-platinum selling songwriter, producer, singer and mentor. Over fifty million records sold; Ivor Novello Award.

Pam is best known for co-writing the #1 Billboard hit "Genie In a Bottle" for Christina Aguilera. Her songs have been covered by a number of international artists including; Camila Cabello, Demi Lovato, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, Corrine Bailey Rae, Seal, Sinead O’Connor, The Backstreet Boys, Cece Winans and The Saturdays.

As for film and television, Pam has written end titles for The Princess Diaries, Confessions of A Teenage Drama Queen and the Golden Globe nominated film, Young Victoria. Her songs have featured in TV films Camp Rock 1 & 2, Jump In and numerous shows on the small screen. Pam appeared as songwriting mentor in the first series of Fame Academy (BBC).

RICHARD HARRIS

Richard is a #1 Billboard songwriter, producer, artist and mentor for Meghan Trainor, among other performers. Multiple number one, top ten and platinum records.

Hundreds of film, television, and advertising song placements . His hit shows on TV include Empire, Nashville, Vanderpump Rules, The Bold Type, High Fidelity. Big-screen credits include This Means War and Single Moms Club, simultaneous with commercials for HBO, AT&T, eBay and Vivo. Multiple advertisements/trailers for Fox TV and NFL.

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INITIAL SPEAKERS

new names added each week

WALLY GAGEL

Wally Gagel is an award-winning record producer, audio engineer, mixer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He, together with Xandy Barry, also constitutes the production team WAX LTD. In 2019 that project embarked on a joint venture with Universal Music to form Audio Wax, releasing hundreds of songs for film, television and advertising.

His credits include Family of the Year, Zella Day, Elliphant, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, New Order, Muse, Rolling Stones, Jessica Simpson, Best Coast, Nick Lachey, Blondfire, Redlight King, Rihanna, Eels, Meiko, Lenka, Folk Implosion, Juliana Hatfield, Belly, Buffalo Tom, Superchunk, Larkin Poe, Robert DeLong, Old 97’s, Jukebox the Ghost, and Joshua Radin. Within the context of the iTunes Sessions he has also collaborated with Bon Iver, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Gorillaz, The Gaslight Anthem, Lykke Li, Vampire Weekend, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, PJ Harvey, Metric, The Decemberists, Norah Jones and more.

SHELLY PEIKEN

Grammy-nominated songwriter Shelly Peiken has been a prolific force in the music business for more than two decades. She is best known for co-authoring female empowerment anthems such as Christina Aguilera’s No. 1 hit, “What a Girl Wants” and Meredith Brooks’ “Bitch.” Over and above such success, Shelly has written for and with The Pretenders, Miley Cyrus, Keith Urban, Britney Spears, Brandy, Cher, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Mandy Moore, Plain White Ts, Smash Mouth, Jesse J, Natasha Bedingfield, Bebe Rexha, Reba, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys.

Her songs have been featured in films and television shows such as Big Little Lies, Dave, Orange Is the New Black, Orphan Black, High Potential, The Blind Side, Madam Webb, Music of the Heart, Center Stage, What Women Want, Dear God, Blue Streak, Bring It On, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, The Princess Diaries, A Walk to Remember, What a Girl Wants, Lizzie McGuire, Bourne Identity, and Disney’s Descendants.

Her memoir Confessions of a Serial Songwriter earned a second Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album. Shelly was voted Best Singer Songwriter by Hollywood Music and Media in 2021, honored at the 2023 She Rocks Awards, and featured at London’s Other Songs Concert. As a founding member of SONA (Songwriters of North America) she has long been an advocate for creators.