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Our host, and trip director 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. In 1988 he moved to London to take on the role of Chief Executive first of the City of London Sinfonia and then the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment . His passion for Felix Mendelssohn led him to begin researching Mendelssohn's experiences in Great Britain. Now in addition to serving as the orchestral manager for Chineke, a pioneering and award winning youth orchestra in London dedicated to multicultural diversity and social change, Stephen directs his own cultural tour company. Carpenter Holidays including planning and leading "Mendelssohn in Scotland" which follow exactly in Mendelssohn's footsteps nearly 200 years after his visit in 1829. Read more at www.carpenterholidays.com,
Mythica was delighted to begin our partnership with Stephen for our first musical journey in the fall of 2019, and we are hoping to resume our planned collaborations to Austria,England and Italy once the pandemic has passed. |
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Costs:
Early Bird price, applicable until Friday, 25 February 2022 (prices go up £399 per person thereafter, space willing) Tour price: £3,300 per person sharing a double or twin room Single room: £3.890 per person Deposit: £1,000 due on booking Tour price includes: Accommodation, breakfast daily, nine dinners, three lunches, recitals in Edinburgh and on Iona, private tours of Holyrood Palace and Abbotsford, and Iona Abbey, coach transportation throughout, all tips for guides and coach driver, ferry crossings to the Isles of Mull and Iona and boat trip to Staffa and Fingal's Cave, the services of Stephen Carpenter and Kayleen Asbo as tour managers, Celtic music singing circles with Robin O'Brien and art journaling activities with Sue Ellen Parkinson Excluded is your travel to and from Edinburgh, a few lunches and two dinners on your own and any drinks you order with meals. |