Concert

Don't miss "Music From Inside The Pyramids",  a journey in music and mythical imagery spanning thousands of years and be immersed in the world of ancient Egypt, which laid out so many of the universally adopted rituals, symbols and truths present in all the popular religions throughout history and which are still in use to this present day. The concert moves through the cradle of civilisation to the many divergent forms of evolving cultures in humanity’s timeless search for meaning, healing, and the universal tendency of humans to embark on a quest for wellbeing in their “afterlife”.

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The “Journeys” concert on one level explores through music, large screen imagery and narration, human civilisations over a timespan of a million years, and their endless movement from place to place. It especially looks into the internal and external forces and needs which underlie these migrations - forces which have pushed humanity whether ready or not, from basic safety and the needs of shelter and food, through concepts of community, inclusion or exclusion, to grander scales of power and its laws, but also the often dramatic changes and upheavals wrought by natural forces throughout time. Equally, on another level, the concert examines the psychology of humanity’s responses to crises, of where we either make the choice of contracting in fear or blame, or where we continue finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most painful ones, and thus a reason to continue living and finding steps forward.

International electric violin virtuoso Rupert Guenther with his Crystal Voyager Band performing Sunset Grooves at the Quarry Amphitheatre.

Journey under the stars at this outdoor concert of exotic sounds, from bamboo forests, mosques and temples of central Asia, to the beats and rhythms from African villages and the Middle East, and enjoy listening to an artist who has performed on concert stages around the world for decades - including Vienna, London, Milan, and New York.

Rupert is renowned for his amazing electric violin sound, and his concerts are an imaginative world voyage of ancient, ambient, electronic and world-music influences, in an uplifting and positive experience for audiences of all ages.

Former sideman to the stars such as Beatles producer Sir George Martin, Olivia Newton-John, Demis Roussos, and John Farnham, Rupert has toured as a solo artist the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia, and has released 35 albums of his own music since 2003.

Enjoy a relaxed picnic dinner on the lawns while you travel the world in music at this beautiful outdoor evening concert.

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A night of electric blues violin under the stars with an all-star live band!

Catch frontman Rupert Guenther and his all-star band playing a night of down-home traditional electric blues under the stars at the Quarry Amphitheatre.

Rupert's deep love for the blues brings together a band of some of Australia's most authentic blues talent in a show of Chicago, Mississippi and New Orleans blues, with his immediately identifiable electric violin sound and unique vocal style.

Renowned for over 30 years for his electric violin sound and highly personal and spontaneous shows, the maverick musician whose career has spanned from classical opera in Vienna to world music, blues and Europop in stadiums now brings to the Quarry Amphitheatre classics from the likes of Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Little Walter, Robert Johnston, Link Wray, Elmore James, John Lee Hooker and more, from acoustic renditions to searing electric Delta blues and more.

Having spent two decades working as sideman to the stars (The Vienna Chamber Opera, Beatles' producer Sir George Martin, Olivia Newton-John, Demis Roussos, John Farnham, and projects with players from Procul Harum, Daddy Cool, Little River Band, and Frank Zappa band), and his own solo national classical concert tours he is enjoying sharing his love of the blues with local audiences again.

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A world premiere concert by composer-violinist Rupert Guenther based on the events of the very physical shockwaves embracing the eruption (and actually the complete explosion of the entire Island) of Krakatoa on 27th August in 1883, this new work Krakatoa - Volcanic Cataclysm, Shockwaves & Sunsets for solo violin in 5 movements describes the event through music, and the energy of shockwaves, volcanic ash and a huge Tsunami it sent out into the oceans and nearby lands, and for several years afterwards the red sunsets it caused all over the world from the volcanic ash in the atmosphere.

Tickets: $45 adults and $35 concession and children (not including Eventbrite booking fee).

A rich journey of world music, from the silk road through eastern Europe and Asia, this concert takes us into the wilderness of the natural world: the canyons, bamboo forests, misty mountain tops, temples and rivers. Quietness is discovered to have always been there - we just had to stop and listen to it. This quietude has been the secret of the saints and mystics throughout time, who through years of seclusion and meditation practice could attain a deep stillness. An opportunity to re-set your own inner compass to your heart, and dial down your inner volume levels to quiet.

Tickets $25 per person (not including Eventbrite booking fee).

This concert of contemplative music with influences of the Middle East takes us into the world of the mystics of the 11th-14th centuries, with imaginative fragments of sound we would find in the sacred places of that time. The music derives its inspirations from the devotional love-poetry of the likes of Hafiz, Kabir and Rumi, and sets the listener on a mystical journey into the yearning for divine love and the presence and quietude of the hermit saints of the East.

Tickets: $25 per person (not including Eventbrite booking fee).

The Middle-East and North Africa of antiquity was a place of science, scholarship, astronomy, art, education, architecture and culture, way more advanced than its European counterparts for thousands of years. The Damascus concert using musical flavours typical of the plain song and chant styles in Eleusinian, Gregorian, Byzantine and Arabic music, traces the journey of humanity in melismatic improvisation-style musical reflections, and offers a window into the heightened atmosphere and illumination in the high cultures of that time.

Tickets $25 per person (not including Eventbrite booking fee)