" Our purpose is to enrich our community by engaging audiences and inspiring a love of music through exciting live symphony performances, innovative programming, and educational outreach." Dr. Sylvia Lee Mann

Dr. Sylvia Lee Mann - Music Director and Conductor

Dr. Sylvia Lee Mann is a composer, conductor and virtuoso performer, appearing with many orchestras in the Southern California area. In addition to her positions as Music Director and Conductor of The West Covina Symphony Orchestra and San Gabriel Valley Symphony Orchestra, she is the String Pedagogy, String Ensemble and Upper Strings Professor at California State University Dominguez Hills campus, the Director of Music at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City,CA and assistant conductor of the Bellflower Symphony Orchestra. She is a performer with The Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, The Rio Hondo, La Mirada, Peninsula and Southeast Symphony Orchestras, and is principal violist of the Culver City Symphony & Beach Cities Symphony Orchestras.

Her musical studies began at age 4. She completed her undergraduate studies at Chapman College, and did her graduate studies at the University of Southern California & London University.

She studied viola and violin with such notable teachers as Dr. Thomas G. Hall, Louis Debovsky, John Coppin, Noumi Fischer, Francis Tersi, David Stockhammer and Milton Thomas. As a composer, her mentors include William Kraft, Gunther Schuller and Samuel Adler. Her conducting studies included such notable pedagogues as Maestro John Koshak, who studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Dr. James Vail of the University of Southern California, Daniel Lewis and Dr. Rodney Eichenberger.

From 1987 - 2002, Dr. Mann lived in Louisiana, where she served as the principal violist of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, The Baroque Artists of Shreveport and violist of the Premier String Quartet. She was the Music Director of the Ark-La-Tex Youth Symphony Orchestra program. She also enjoyed performing with the popular all-woman rock band, “Lip Service” and was the recipient of the Shreveport LA Regional Arts Council's prestigious Music Fellowship Award.

Sylvia is currently composing, conducting and recording the music for an upcoming independent feature film. She has recently composed incidental music for a number of short festival films and theatre productions in the Los Angeles area, as well as multiple chamber music works and symphonic pieces for films. symphony orchestras, chamber music ensembles, and choral groups across the nation. Her original recorded music is now available at iTunes, Napster, Real Rhapsody, CDBaby, and a number of other digital music services. She also is a signed artist for DMX, Spafax and Face music - which program music for major cable television shows & music channels, as well as for major airline music selection channels. More information about her original compositions can be found on her website, http://sylvialeemann.com

" Our purpose is to enrich our community by engaging audiences and inspiring a love of music through exciting live symphony performances, innovative programming, and educational outreach." ... Dr. Sylvia Lee Mann

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 West Covina Symphony Orchestra, Inc

(San Gabriel Valley Symphony Orchestra)

Board of Directors 2010

Name	Office	Residence	Qualification/Interest
Sylvia Lee Mann	President/CEO/CFO	West Covina	Music Director/Conductor/Founder

Professional conductor, composer, violist. Previously president/director of many non-profit organizations: Shreveport Symphony Players Association, Community Center of Northwest Louisiana, Director/Manager of Ark-La-Tex Youth Symphony, Union contract negotiator for local 116 musicians union, Shreveport LA, Fellow: Shreveport Regional Arts Council, Music Educator, college professor. Alumni of West Covina High School, Chapman College, USC and London University. Multiple Doctoral Degrees (Music Composition, Orchestral and Choral Conducting, Performance, Music History.)

Sandy Gunn

Secretary

West Covina

Manager/Musician/Publications

Professional musician, retired computer consultant and graphic artist. She has a B.A. in Foreign Languages and Music and has performed, taught and studied ethnic music since age 13. Sandy owned her own consulting business for 25 years in the L.A. area, teaching professional computer publishing and graphics software and writing computer instruction manuals. She currently enjoys teaching and performing music and creating publications for WCSO.

Mary Au

Member

Los Angeles

Musician/Grammy Organization Mu Phi Epsilon/Piatagorsky Artist

Mary was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, USC Marshall School of Business and USC Thornton School of Business.  After receiving her MBA, she joined the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche specializing in Forensic Accounting and Corporate Finance. Thereafter, she joined the Grammy Organization and headed the Business Affairs Department for multiple 501c tax-exempt entities.  She was tapped to join a large independent record company as their Director of Finance for their Western Region. Currently, Au is a musician specializing in Keyboard Collaborative Art.

Linda Robinson

Member

West Covina

WCUMC Event Coordinator/Financial Professional, Entertainment Industry

West Covina High School Alumni, Event coordinator at the West Covina United Methodist Church, financial professional in the entertainment industry

Victoria Paul

Member

Ventura

Musician/Theatre Professional

Grew up in South Pasadena, Occidental College Alumni, former theatre professional at the Los Angeles Music Center and in Sydney Australia, now an educator in Ventura, CA

Frances Anthony

Member

North Hollywood

Musician/Nonprofit Professional

Professional vocalist, as well as professionally active at UCLA’s Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, and at KPFK broadcast radio.

Dana Sundene

Member

Diamond Bar

Musician/Educator/Computer Consultant

Professional Musician (oboe/flute), computer consultant, Educator. Specializes in developing concert programs for schools.

Gary Lawson

Member

West Covina

GWC/Future America

Greater West Covina Business Association, Future America, Entrepreneur, Business Consultant

Ruslan Biryukov

Member

Los Angeles

Musical Artist, Community leader

            Glendale Philharmonic, International Musical Artist, Musical Community leader.