Anima Mundi, the annual International Festival of Sacred Music, will be held in Pisa, Italy from 7-20 September 2018. This year’s program consists of seven concerts that program organizers hope will deeply move the hundreds of thousands of visitors who plan to attend the performances, which will be held in the Cathedral of Pisa and the city’s Camposanto Monumentale (a huge, historic cemetery and open-air museum). All the concerts are free.
The new artistic director of the Festival is Daniel Harding, conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Although just 43 years old, he is already a seasoned director of on-stage symphony performances throughout the world and has repeatedly affirmed that “music was born to unite.”
Launched in 2001, the Anima Mundi Music Festival has reached the point that it is now one of the most important and prestigious religious music events in the world.