Anima Mundi Productions
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Anima Mundi Productions
Our name means The Soul of the World, and we create, present, and produce unique concerts and artistic collaborations that harness the power of the fine arts to stir the soul, foster community, and address urgent social and environmental problems.
The Heart of Humanity Concert Series
Based in Ashland, Oregon, our annual 3-concert series brings world-class musicians to Oregon for concerts that turn the concert hall into a space for renewed hope, communal healing, and mutual understanding.
Anima Mundi Productions presents
— Heaven and Earth —
From the celestial voice of the harp, to sacred songs that call us to cherish our fragile planet, to music written against impossible odds, this season’s world-class musicians turn the concert hall into a place of beauty, reflection, and renewed hope.
Emmanuel Ceysson
Sunday, March 21, 2027
New York Polyphony
Sunday, April 18, 2027
Catalyst Quartet
Saturday, May 22, 2027
Reviews of our 2025-26 season
Oregon ArtsWatch: Daniel del Pino mesmerizes his audience with Andalusian-inspired classical pieces
"Spanish concert pianist, recording artist and virtuoso Daniel del Pino led an absolutely captivated audience through some of the most daring, tempestuous, organically beautiful, Andalusian-inspired classical pieces by the most renowned Spanish and French composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries..."
Tiziana DellaRovere of Anima Mundi once again presented four of her deeply moving, ecstatically soulful poems that seem to emanate from another realm..."
Ashland.News: ‘For Love of Nature’ mesmerizes—only fault was the reverie ending all too soon
"Oh, what an ethereal and gently restorative spring concert Anima Mundi Productions presented... Twenty deeply moving songs made up the “For Love of Nature” concert — praising the rain, sensing the snow, calling on the moon, all while echoing loneliness and lost love among the trees on a stage bursting with spring flower arrangements by Tiziana DellaRovere...."
Ashland.News: A concert delayed by challenges proves well worth the wait
"Shireen Abu-Khader heads a moving, at times breathtaking, performance of Middle Eastern music at SOU presented by Anima Mundi... Anima Mundi Productions was finally able to present Shireen Abu-Khader, an internationally recognized, dynamic Palestinian-Jordanian-Canadian choral leader, vocalist and composer-arranger of Middle Eastern music...
This concert was almost a year in the planning and fraught with challenges..."
Ashland.News: Mass for the Endangered’ finds the ‘sacred’ in storytelling
"Rogue Valley residents were treated to a mystical, immersive experience... the viewing of a visually mesmerizing short film entitled Mass for the Endangered, a digitally designed tribute to endangered animals, followed by the attendees’ engagement in an interactive art project. Participants were invited to “paint” special watercolor crayons onto blocks of vellum that contained images of imperiled animal species...
News & Updates
Young Oregon artists express fire trauma in ‘For Love of Nature’ exhibit
By Janet Eastman |
The Oregonian/OregonLive
The “For Love of Nature” project, which calls for environmental stewardship, was produced by Anima Mundi Productions and Rogue Climate under the mentorship of artist and educator Adrian Chavez.
Ethan Gans-Morse, co-founder of the Ashland-based Anima Mundi Productions, said their fire experiences set these participants apart. But he noted that other young people around the world “have equally valid and equally unique concerns and traumas caused by our changing climate.”
Susie Garcia, the Rogue Valley coordinator with climate justice nonprofit Rogue Climate, said teenagers feel unheard and disregarded by adults in their lives.
Creative projects give students the satisfaction of expressing themselves and making their environmental concerns obvious, Garcia said. Seeing something new come to life provides a sense of agency, she added.
Art can be used for creative problem solving and has the power to change people’s opinions, said Chavez, who was born, raised and remains based in southern Oregon.
“There are scientists using the artistic thought process and artist activists working with themes of environmentalism to bring awareness to climate change,” he said.
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What people are saying about Anima Mundi Productions
Co-founder and resident poet Tiziana DellaRovere leads a talk-back for combat veterans with psychologist Dr. Suzanne Best following the premiere of The Canticle of the Black Madonna in Portland, Oregon
“In these dark times it helps us remember our humanity, and… Anima Mundi has worked diligently to bring some of the world’s most accomplished musical and performance artists to Ashland.”
Lucie Scheuer, Ashland News
Irma Piñeda Tellez, an Aztec dancer and culture keeper, performs during the 2021 recording of our multimedia opera, Dreams Have No Borders.
Photo by Chava Florendo