News & Updates
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News Coverage: World-famous cellist gives 4-hour master class at Ashland High School
Ashland News: World-famous cellist gives 4-hour master class at Ashland High School Ashland News covered our February 2025 events with two articles. Reviewing our February 2nd concert featuring cellist Amit Peled and pianist Daniel del Pino, Lucie...
Review: “World-renowned cellist moves Ashland audience to its feet — after touching its heart”
Ashland News praises our February 2024 concert and "Cello Day" events with renowned cellist Amit Peled Ashland News covered our February 2025 events with two articles. Reviewing our February 2nd concert featuring cellist Amit Peled and pianist...
Review: “‘Unbreakable Spirit’ tells of Ukraine’s anguish with soaring music”
Anima Mundi presented two events dedicated to the Ukrainian people and spotlighted stirring new works On October 27, 2024, Anima Mundi Productions presented Grammy-winning Ukrainian pianist Nadia Spachenko in a concert titled "Unbreakable Spirit:...
Review: The resiliency of human spirit in ‘Dreams Have No Borders’
Ashland News covers the world premiere of Anima Mundi's filmed opera "Dreams Have No Borders." The weekend started with a panel discussion by community leaders at El Tapatio Restaurant, moved to two showings of Dreams Have No Borders at the...
JPR Radio Jefferson Exchange interview about the creation of “Dreams Have No Borders”
Anima Mundi unveils its filmed opera, stories from the Rogue Valley's Latino community. Dreams Have No Borders is a story of Latino immigrant families in the Rogue Valley, fictionalized but based on interviews with real people and the...
Review: ‘The Meaning of Love’ inspires a journey through the sublime
Anima Mundi’s concert at the SOU Recital Hall shone like a diamond On February 18, 2024, Anima Mundi Productions presented "The Meaning of Love," featuring Zachary Lenox, baritone, and Jocelyn Claire Thomas, soprano, with Jodi French, pianist, in...
Newswatch 12 KDRV: Local organizations receive funding to tackle community issues through art
Oregon Art Commission awards Arts Build Communities Grant to Anima Mundi Productions The Arts Build Communities grant funds a mentoring program for Forward Youth teens to produce and display their art works, which share the story of their...
Uptown String Quartet members and guest talk about being Black, Native women in the music world
Quartet and Chava Florendo created collaborative ‘honor song’: ‘It’s straight from the river’ Before wrapping up a week of local events with a landmark reunion concert Sunday, Nov. 5, members of the Uptown String Quartet and two special guests...
Interview: The Uptown String Quartet interview with Don Matthews
JPR Classics: Don Matthews interviews The Uptown String Quartet. Maxine Roach, viola, describes the origin of the Uptown String Quartet along with quartet members Diane Monroe, violin, Lesa Terry, violin, and Marika Hughes, cello. Then the group...