Our host, Stephen Carpenter, spent his career in orchestra management, starting in Scotland in the early 1980s with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and later the Royal Scottish National Orchestra before moving to London in 1988 to be Chief Executive first of the City of London Sinfonia and then the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment before beginning his own company to pursue his passion for Felix Mendelssohn's connection to England and Scotland.
Stephen now runs his own cultural holiday business, www.carpenterholidays.com, including planning and leading "Mendelssohn in Scotland Holidays" which follow exactly in Mendelssohn's footsteps nearly 200 years after his visit in 1829. Mythica is delighted to be partnering with Stephen for our first musical journey in the fall of 2019, and we are planning another one to Vienna in spring of 2020. |