Folies-Alhambra: Lani Ridley Pedrini is the owner of THEATERS OF VISION PRODUCTIONS and founder of the Theaters of Vision All Star Community Orchestra (TOVASCO). Theaters of Vision Productions has produced such live stage musical productions such as The Wizard of Oz, Inner Sanctum, Harry Who?, The Tin Pan Alley Years, Day After Day, As Time Goes By, The Tunnel of Love and many more. She has written, produced, directed and /or performed in over 100 performances which includemusical theater, serious drama and comedic roles for both stage and television, supporting over 100 diverse and worthy charities, some of them multiple times.  She is experienced in the creation and implementation of successful benefit productions and events, under the restrictions of fundraising budgets and has been solely responsible for bringing in thousands of dollars in subsidies and /or sponsorship funds toward the support of the technical implementation of such productions. Ridley Pedrini is a five time published author and national award recipient (Select Poets Award and The Vision Library Award: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001): Poems and Inspirational Pieces (International Library of Poetry and the Famous Poets Society): and three time published book, Lifting the Veil. She has served on the Executive Board of Directors of the San Gabriel Valley Music Theater (SGVMT) and the Shakespeare League of Pasadena and currently serves on the Pasadena Senior Center Board and as Co-Chair on the Second Baptist Church Board of Trustees for the last 18 years. Her family established the Pedrini Music stores in 1934 with retail outlets all over Southern California. Theaters of Vision Productions (TOVP) creates, produces, directs, performs and presents original premier community outreach benefit live stage musical productions. The goal is to support and benefit community outreach through the enhancement of the performing arts and contribution to the educational and cultural fabric of the community at large. The main focus of the Theaters of Vision Productions (TOVP) mission is creating an opportunity for up and coming performing artists and play writes to showcase their work in a professional, educational and cultural performance arena with professional mentors. These Mentors will share their talents and gifts with those who are being trained in their respective disciplines Play writes, Musicians, Dancers, Vocalists, Actors, Magicians, Comedians, etc. which is the direction and heart of the organization. TOVP has served many diverse and worthy charities, some of them multiple times. The general goal is to give mentoring and showcase performing opportunities to up and coming performers, while providing a community outreach and a spectacular theater experience to our audiences, the community at large. Our emphasis and focus is on the Pasadena and the surrounding San Gabriel Valley communities.

Created in the style of many big band and vocal groups from the 1930's & 40's, Remember When is a performing Vocal Group, singing Big Band Vocals, Jazz Standards and Movie Favorites in the greater Los Angeles area. The music is presented in a close harmony four part (SATB) style. The group performs both a'cappella and with big band sound tracks for a full orchestration of sound. Remember When's musical style is reminiscent of the Modernaires, the Pied Pipers, the Four Freshmen, The Lettermen, Manhattan Transfer and New York Voices. Remember When has a fresh approach to a hard to find jazz vocal style.

With excellence and passion, the Bryant Park Quartet (Anna Elashvili and Ben Russell, violins, Nathan Schram, viola, and Tomoko Fujita, cello) delivers captivating performances, delighting audiences across the country.

NEAL STULBERG,Conductor and Pianist Heralded by the Los Angeles Times as ". . .a shining example of podium authority and musical enlightenment," Mr. Stulberg has led the Philadephia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta, Houston, Indianapoilis, Milwaukee, National, New Jersey, New World, Pacific, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Utah and Vancouver symphonies, St Paul Chamber Orchestra and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras, among others. He is a recipient of the Seaver/National Endowment of the Arts Conductors Award, America's most coveted conducting prize. Mr. Stulberg's career in Europe includes conducting the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, North Holland Philharmonic, Gelders Otchestra, Netherlands Ballet Orchestra and Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam. He conducted the WDR Rundfunkorchestra Koln and the orchestras of Augsburg, Bochum, Dortmund, Herford, Freiburg, Muenster, Nurnberg, Oldenburg and Rostock. He has been a frequent guest conductor in Asia, Israel, Russia, Australia, Mexico and Scandinavia

As a pianist, Stulberg has appeared regularly as recitalist, chamber musician, with major orchestras and at international festivals. Chamber collaborators include Joseph Silverstein, Ani Kavafian, James Buswell, Toby Appel, Jeffrey Kahane, Stuart Canin, Gloria Cheng, Antonio Lysy and Alexander Kerr.  His performances of Mozart concertos conducted from the keyboard are uniformly praised for their buoyant virtuosity and interpretive vigor. He has recently recorded solo piano music of Alexander Veprik for West German Radio.

Mr. Stulberg has given premieres of works by Steve Reich, Dmitri Smirnov, Joan Tower, Peter Schat and Peter van Onna, led the period-instrument orchestra Philharmonia Baroque in a festival of Mozart orchestral and operatic works, and has brought to life several silent movies from the early 1900s, including the Russian classic New Babylon, Shostakovich's first film score.  In 2001, he conducted Philip Glass' opera Akhnaten at the Rotterdam Festival and Thomas Adès' Powder Her Face with Long Beach Opera in Los Angeles.  He has recorded for West German Radio, Donemus and the Composers Voice label. A native of Detroit, Mr. Stulberg is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School.  He studied conducting with Franco Ferrara at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, piano with Leonard Shure, Theodore Lettvin, William Masselos and Mischa Kottler, and viola with Ara Zerounian.  He currently serves as Professor and Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of Chamber Music at the Elizabeth Mandell Music Institute of the Crossroads School in Santa Monica.

Violinist GUILLAUME SUTRE began his studies in Douai, France; he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at age 14. As a student of Gérard Poulet, he was awarded first prize in both violin and chamber music. After finishing his studies in France, he attended Indiana University at Bloomington to study with Josef Gingold, Franco Gulli, Menahem Pressler and Janos Starker. He subsequently studied in Cologne with the Amadeus Quartet.

He was only 18 years old when he won three major awards: first prize in the A. Curci International Violin Competition in Naples, Italy; the International Piano Trio ARD Competition in Munich; and the International Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Indiana. He was subsequently invited to play in numerous festivals, including at Stresa (Italy), la Roque d'Anthéron (France), Wigmore Hall, Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Berlin Philharmonie, Musikverein (Vienna), the Hong Kong Festival, Beijing Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, University of California at Los Angeles and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. His motivation to meet musicians from all continents has led him to travel to more unusual destinations such as the Addis Ababa Conservatory (Ethiopia), Opéra of Manaus (Brazil), Grand Théatre d'Hanoï (Vietnam), and Fondation Bolipata (Philippines). Deeply influenced by the pianist, composer, chamber musician and teacher Jean-Claude Pennetier, Mr. Sutre was attracted to chamber music early in his career.  In 1986, he founded the Trio Wanderer; ten years later he joined the Ysaye Quartet. His vast repertoire of over 400 works features all the string chamber works of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Ravel, and all 68 Haydn quartets. His collaborators have included his wife Kyung-Hee Kim, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Nelson Freire, Pascal Rogé, Nicolas Angelich, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Leonidas Kavakos, Michaela Martin, Michel Portal, Paul Meyer, Wolfgang Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma, Roland Pidoux, Antonio Lysy, Renaud & Gauthier Capuçon.

In addition to performing chamber music, Guillaume Sutre has also appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of Montpellier, l'Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Sinfonia Varsovia, Berlin-Radio Orchestra, Göttingen Symphonic Orchestra, l'Orchestre de Bretagne, l'Orchestre d'Auvergne, Franz Liszt Orchestra of Budapest, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège and has perfomed with conductors Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Langrée, Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach, Stefan Sanderling, David Robertson and Sheldon Morgenstern, among others.His recordings for Sony Classical, Decca, Harmonia Mundi, Naïve, Aeon, and Ysaÿe Records have received the highest distinctions in France and internationally. These recordings include the complete quartets and quintets of Gabriel Fauré with pianist Pascal Rogé, André Boucourechliev's string quartet, Haydn's Last Seven Words of Christ (with Michel Serres's unpublished texts) and Bruch's Double Concerto with the Orchestre de Bretagne. His live recording of the complete duets of Haydn and Mozart with violist Miguel da Silva has been hailed by critics as definitive. Mr. Sutre is also a passionate advocate of music of his time, and regularly performs world premieres of composers such as Michele Reverdy, Isabelle Fraisse, Noam Sheriff and Paul Chihara. With his wife Kyung-Hee KIM, they keep exploring exploring the untouched repertoire for violin and Harp, renewing with a tradition of more intimate concert given in the Salon de Musique at the time of the creative and merry atmosphere of the Belle époque.

In addition to his performing activities, Mr. Sutre is passionately committed to transmitting his knowledge and sharing his concert experience with musicians of younger generations. Since 1995, he has served as professor of violin, specializing in the practice of the string quartet, at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris. As a visiting professor at the Academies of Villecroze, Nice, Flaine, Aldeburgh, Zeist Music Days, Eastern Music Festival, University of Southern California, and in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he has given master classes in both chamber music as well as solo violin.  He currently serves as Professor of Violin and director of string chamber music at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He recently served on the jury of the prestigious 2010 Long-Thibaud International Violin Competition in Paris. In 1994, SACEM awarded him the prestigious George Enesco Prize. In 1999, he was named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and the Letters by the French government, he received in 2010 the Silver Medal of the City of Paris.

Guillaume Sutre plays a 1738 Italian violin made by Gregorio Antoniazzi, and uses a bow made by François Lupot in 1815.

The Center for the Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) is a non-profit community outreach ministry of Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church. It was established in 2006 bringing a diverse range of musical programs, stage plays, dance art, visual art and documenties to Los Angeles. CVPA is a member of the Consortium of Southern California Chamber Music Presenters and the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce and works closely with the performing arts community and various faith-based organizations throughout Southern California. The directors of CVPA come from professional backgrounds encompassing music, business, marketing and church leadership.

CVPA welcomes your generous donations to help bring these programs to the community. If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution to support the arts, please contact

Mr. Yee at (626) 230 5435 

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