The Mendelssohn on Mull Music Festival is an annual chamber concert event started in 1988 by Leonard Friedman to enable young musicians about to embark on their professional careers to experience the exhilaration of participating in a week of making high class music to live audiences in a variety of locations on this beautiful island

Mendelssohn on Mull are delighted to put a special portrait of Mendelssohn on public display for the first time at this year’s Festival. The portrait was painted during Mendelssohn’s famous first trip to Scotland in 1829 and can be viewed at the Festival’s final concert in St John’s Cathedral, Oban, on Saturday 4 July 2009 at 7.30pm. The painting, authenticated by Sotheby’s, is an early work by the Scottish artist Thomas Duncan RSA and has been kindly loaned to the Festival by its owner. The public viewing has been made possible by the generous sponsorship of AXA Art insurance.

SPECIAL PADDLE STEAMER TRIP OBAN-MULL - NEW DATE! ***MONDAY 1ST JUNE***

If you want to come, please use the Ticket Booking form by clicking here and posting it to the Trust Office at the address on the form. If you have previously booked for the earlier date and wish to join the trip on the new date, would you please confirm it by filling in a new form and clearly marking it "CONFIRMATION".

On 8^th August 1829, Mendelssohn set off by steamer from Oban to Tobermory. That night from a room in a Tobermory house, he wrote the first few bars of the Hebrides Overture. You may be interested to know that the house where Mendelssohn stayed on his visit to Mull is for sale. It is the pale green house which lies back between the Co-op and the Anchorage. Mull Museum apparently has some evidence of his visit, which I have not seen, but it would be good if there could be a special display at the Museum in honour of Mendelssohn’s 200^th birthday.
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Prof. Donald Leach CBE

Marilyn writes:
Thank you to everyone who came to the memorial event for Donald, and to those who could not attend but sent their love. Richard organised a ‘Mullfest’ to be remembered: all the players were alumni: Maggie Miller, Rosie Townhill, Emma Stevenson, Kirsty Orton and Heather Kennedy. The choir from St Michael and All Saints in Edinburgh sang Faure’s Requiem, as Donald had wished, and in between we heard from Mendelssohn, of course, but also Handel and Gershwin. It was a pity that Donald was not there to hear it, although I was not the only person to remark that he was surely there in spirit. It was a great joy to me that my eldest son, Richard, and his youngest brother, Andy played a Mendelssohn piano duet. I hope they will perform it again at the festival this year. Thank you too for those who sent donations to two charities Donald held dear: the Mull Festival itself and Prostate Scotland. It is not too late to send donations in his memory. With heartfelt thanks for your support.

FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL RECEPTION

Marilyn Jeffcoat, Chairman of the Mendelssohn on Mull Trust, extends a warm invitation to you and your guests to join her and fellow Trustees at the Friends Reception at An Tobar Arts Centre, Tobermory on Sunday 28th June 2009 at 7.30 p.m. Please join us for an informal opportunity to meet with friends, musicians and mentors.
If you have not joined the Friends of the Festival, now is the time to do so. Please click on this link for the application form

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For full screen view press F11 key ~ To be sure to see the latest version press F5

PORTRAIT OF MENDELSSOHN

SPECIAL PADDLE STEAMER TRIP OBAN-MULL - NEW DATE! MONDAY 1ST JUNE

Prof. Donald Leach CBE

FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL RECEPTION

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