Hidden Valley Music Seminars

Hidden Valley, an Institute of the Performing Arts is nestled in the glorious, scenic Carmel Valley just ten miles from the internationally famous Monterey/Carmel area, Hidden Valley is an exciting arts training center providing young talents from around the world with performance and study opportunities of excellence. Wright Hall is our recently remodeled 20 room, single story, on-campus residence hall. Rooms are designed for double occupancy and each has a private bath. The charming, rustic 10-acre campus includes a 300-seat theatre, a fireside room, a dance studio, and numerous decks and patios. Hidden Valley is accessible by bus, plane, and train.

Church in the Forest

Church in the Forest opened its doors as a community chapel on September 13, 1987. It is located in the award winning Erdman Chapel at Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach. This chapel, designed by John Lyon Reid, is noted for it soaring ceilings.

Of particular importance is the Greg Harrold pipe organ built and installed in 1992. This baroque instrument is perfectly sited high in the rear balcony. The traditional wine-glass shaped cabinet is made of mahogany. Pipe work is of wood and tin alloys; the exposed front metal pipes are gilded, polished and embossed. The wonderful acoustics of Erdman Chapel enhance the tonality of this exceptional instrument.

Carmel Mission Basilica

The Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (originally La Misión San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo) was first established in Monterey, California on June 3, 1770, the second of the 21 California missions. The Mission was named for Saint Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, Italy.

The following year, the Mission moved to its present location near the town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, in what was the Third Military District; the original site continued to operate as a chapel and later became the Cathedral of San Carlos Borroméo. “Mission Carmel,” as it came to be known, was Father Junípero Serra’s favorite, and being close to Monterey (the capital of Alta California) became his headquarters. When he died on August 28, 1784 he was buried on the Mission grounds.

The Golden State Theatre

In 2004 Warren Dewey purchased The Golden State Theater on Alvarado Street in Monterey from Regal Entertainment Group and has restored the theatre to a thriving performing arts center. The upstairs theatres are gone; the auditorium’s ground floor has been re-floored and reseated; stenciled paintings have been restored; new projectors are in place; a new, larger movie screen has been installed and flown so the stage can be used for live performances; and the list goes on and on.

Now The Golden State boasts movies, performances by The Monterey Symphony, The Monterey Opera and concert with its wonderfully restored Wurlitzer Organ. As well, young people can see what the Golden Age of Theater was really like. Picture & story courtesy, in part, to The Golden State Theatre

Pacific Grove Performing Arts Center

The Performing Arts Center of Pacific Grove was originally built in 1923 as part of an expansion of the Pacific Grove High School.  It was primarily used for school and community productions and was enjoyed by locals throughout the 1920s and 30s, and survived a major fire in the 1940s.  The rebuilt campus now houses the PG Middle School.

During the remodeling of Carmel’s Sunset Center in 2001 – 2003, the Monterey Symphony needed a proper venue on the Peninsula.  The PGPAC was selected as the symphony’s temporary home, and underwent extensive refurbishing and modernizing to transform it into a comfortable 700-seat theater.  The Pacific Grove Rotary Club decided to make the Performing Arts Center’s restoration and rebirth its Centennial Project to celebrate 100 years of Rotary (1905-2005).