Creative Music Workshops Intensive  with violinist-composer Rupert Guenther

Name: Creative Music Workshops Intensive with violinist-composer Rupert Guenther
Start: 2025-07-15T10:00:00+0800
End: 2025-07-18T14:00:00+0800
Location: 45 Cliff St

Tue, 15 Jul, 10am - 18 Jul, 2pm AWST

45 Cliff St

Fremantle WA, Australia

Rupert Guenther

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Event description

A four day intensive for up to 20 participants consecutively over 4 days.

Designed to bring value and massively enrich your own artistry and creativity, the workshop series is open to both full-time professional practitioners as much as part-time community musicians.

The comprehensive daily Creative Music Workshop program is an awesome opportunity to explore and develop your practical and creative music skills, and helps develop your artistry in every aspect of music making - accessing inspiration and ideas without “writer’s block”, accessing more emotional depth, having experiences of creating music, acquiring new musical skills, new practical understandings of how music can be created, insights into creative approaches, ways of working creatively solo and collaboratively, and new approaches to wellbeing as arts practitioners including learned strategies and practices to support being able to self-regulate, calm, nurture, express, feel and share, belong, create, contribute, and feel valued ongoing.

The content of the workshops is relevant to all instruments including voice, across all styles of music from classical to folk, rock, pop, blues, indie, ambient and world music. Includes small group and one-on-one time, in an integrated, exciting and inclusive program of growing and deepening your creative music-making.

Being open to the general public to observe, it is also a fascinating and enriching opportunity for the public to wander in and see an insider’s view of the musicians working together with an international calibre artist in the intimate creative processes of music-making.

Note: Persons under 15 yrs must be accompanied by an adult

About Rupert Guenther 
Rupert Guenther is a Vienna-trained concert violinist & composer who specialises in performances of his own new works inspired by local environments, events in history, artworks, the sciences, philosophy, poetry, the natural environment and his own life stories. he uses soundscapes, electronics, improvisation, composition and cross-arts and cross-cultural collaborations, with an underlying theme of fostering spiritual, social and emotional wellbeing in the communities he visits.

His solo concerts over 25 years include Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Recital Centre, The Guildhall Festival London, St Anna Church Vienna, Museum of Docklands London, Bombora House NYC, Adelaide Baroque Hall, Government House Ballroom Perth, and Denmark Arts Brave New Works Festival.

He has independently released over 40 albums of his original music since 2003 including 5 albums commissioned and recorded by ABC Classic FM.

He has performed with The Vienna Chamber Opera, The Vienna Johann Strauss Sinfonia, The Australian Pops Orchestra, The Beatles producer Sir George Martin, Olivia Newton-John, John Farnham, Hollywood songwriter Lizbeth Scott, and Greek superstar Demis Roussos, as well as projects with members of Frank Zappa band, Procol Harum, Daddy Cool, Little River Band, Models, and many more.

He has taught his approaches to creative music in workshops and masterclasses worldwide for over 20 years including the Vienna University for The Performing Arts, The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, the St Paul im Lavanttal Summer School Austria, the Western Australia Academy of Perming Arts (WAAPA), University of Western Australia, Monash University, University of Queensland, and international conferences including The Reflective Conservatoire at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, the International Society for Improvised Music in Denver USA and Switzerland, the European String Teachers Association (ESTA) International Conferences in Sweden, Wales and Portugal, and many private workshops for top European orchestra players, teachers, as well as community music groups, schools, amateur musicians and regional communities worldwide

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The Artist
European trained violinist-composer Rupert Guenther specialises in bespoke concerts of inspired new works and sonatas of his own breathtaking improvisations. Every concert takes audiences on an immersive wellbeing journey as much as a musical one, and each concert presents a new series of highly imaginative site-specific “spirit of place” works, drawing inspiration from thousands of years of human history, architecture, nature, significant events through time, landscape, science, astronomy, philosophy, paintings, poetry, geology, anthropology, ancient artefacts, the night skies, mystical knowledge and personal stories. He creates his music much the same as a painter paints their pictures with great consideration onto a blank canvas, and since 2003 has independently released over 35 albums of his evocative improvisations along these lines, including 5 albums of his sonatas and other collected works commissioned and recorded by Australia’s national broadcaster ABC Classic FM radio.   He also produces many interesting projects beyond classical music each year. These include world music concerts, ambient and meditation concerts, blues and folk projects with other accomplished artists in each of these fields. Collaborations have included Allan Zavod (Frank Zappa, Jean-Luc Ponty), Chris Copping (Procul Harem), Garry Young (Daddy Cool), Stephen Housden (Little River Band), Geoff Wright (JJ Cale), Andrew Duffield (The Models), David Jones (Vince Jones, James Morrison), and many of Australia’s top session players including Les Stacpool, Glenn Suckling, Steve Hadley, John Watson and John McAll.

Teaching
Trained in the famous European violin pedagogue Igor Ozim’s method of playing in Vienna, Austria, Rupert studied extensively with two of professor Ozim’s proteges Brian Finlayson and Hefried Fister and attended Masterclasses and Summer Schools with professor Ozim in Australia and Europe. He was also heavily influenced by his contact with Norwegian violinist professor Terje Moe Hansen and absorbed his all-interval approach into his playing. He earlier studied for many years with Harry Hutchins who was a student of Carl Flesch in Paris. Rupert’s approach is all about holistic learning. He teaches holistic professional development courses for players and teachers at all levels and offers sessions in traditional violin studies, chamber music coaching, string teacher training courses, classical music improvisation, the mystical art of music, electric violin and extended playing techniques, as well as very relevant and practical approaches to healing stage-fright, self-care, wellbeing and meditation for musicians. His private clients include principal players from some of Europe’s finest orchestras such as Zurich Opera and La Scala, and some well-known pop musicians. His healing stage-fright sessions and improvisation masterclasses have been taught at many universities internationally including Vienna University for Performing Arts (MDW), Vorarlberg Conservatorium (Austria), St Paul in Lavantal Summercourse (Austria), international conferences for The Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London), the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) in the USA and Switzerland, European String Teachers Association (ESTA) in UK and Sweden, Australian Strings Association (AUSTA), and Australian Society of Music Educators (ASME/ISME), as well as Australian universities including University of Western Australia, Western Australia Academy of Performing arts (WAAPA), Monash University, and University of Queensland.  

Collaborations 
His international collaborations in improvisation, cross-genre-arts and multi-media improvisation performances embrace both solo and collaborative ensemble projects based on site-specific (“spirit of place”) themes, events and venues. These projects span musical influences ranging from ancient cultures, western classical and other world music traditions, through to amplified soundscapes, extended playing techniques, electric violin, immersive meditation concerts, blues and folk music, and are where the individual background of each artist creates a completely unique synergy and language of music with each pairing. His performances and recordings include Australian keyboardist Andrew Duffield, drummer David Jones, Austrian/Australian cellist Penelope Gunter-Thalhammer, Canadian gong master Don Conreaux, American sculptor John Mayo, Australian indigenous musicians Dr Richard Walley and Amos Roach, Australian sound sculpture artist Rod Cooper, Australian composers Ros Bandt, Simon Charles and Brigid Burke, and Melbourne pianist Melvyn Cann.  

Wellbeing
Rupert brings a lifetime of experience in simple approaches for wellbeing to musicians. He has studied and practised meditation since a teenager and has been a meditation teacher for over 20 years. He also holds Australian government qualifications in Coaching and Mentoring, and in Training & Assessment. Additionally he is an advocate for a shift to holistic personal development and self-care in music and the arts, where the artist consciously works on developing in self-esteem and humanistic values in themselves equally in step with their music career and professional development.  

Inspirational Speaker 
He is an inspiring speaker on a wide range of topics, from violin playing, the environment and freedom of speech, to self-esteem and wellbeing, government and foreign policy, and he has presented regularly at many prestigious international conferences. His central theme in all his work encouraging others to embrace self-care and wellbeing to become the best version of themselves is that we must, as a world, heal our low self-esteem which otherwise allows us to continue the patterns of abuse and being abused in ways manifesting as conflict and neglect at societal, governmental, cultural, familial, personal and global levels - the underlying factor is always self-esteem. In his own areas of specialisation in music and the arts, Rupert holds out the same offer to schools, universities, education organisations and administration, as self-esteem is the central key to our wellbeing in every moment in these areas also.

Advocacy  
Rupert is a driving force for new-paradigm holistic leadership in the arts, administration, government and foreign policy, which emphasises fostering self-esteem, and opportunity earned through demonstrating values of wellbeing and capabilities for compassion, selflessness, inclusiveness, collaborative teamwork and creativity as much as any concept of physical or intellectual excellence.

Concerts & Tours
 He regularly gives recital tours and concerts internationally of his improvisations solo and in collaborations in venues including Tate Britain, London Docklands Museum, Bombora House NYC, the Church of St Anna in Vienna, The Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London), Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Recital Centre, Australian National University, National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University LaTrobe Valley, Perth Winter Arts Festival, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Government House Ballroom Perth, and The Baroque Hall in Adelaide.
 
Sideman to The Stars
A former member of the Vienna Chamber Opera, he has been sideman to the stars including work with The Beatles’ producer Sir George Martin, Olivia Newton-John, John Farnham, and Demis Roussos. 

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Tue, 15 Jul, 10am - 18 Jul, 2pm AWST

45 Cliff St

Fremantle WA, Australia

Hosted by Rupert Guenther