A unique behind-the-scenes artist talk based on Rupert Guenther’s upcoming “Music From Inside The Pyramids” concert at the WA Museum, and explains the creative journey of taking inspirations from visual, scientific, historic and cultural evidence and turning it into an array of evocative music and text.

No booking required. Cost is included in the general admission to the museum.

The New Letters To Esterhazy Sonata 1 is a set of exquisite improvisations for violin performed by the artist. Each movement depicts imaginary letters from the artist in 21st century Australia sent back in time to Austrian musician Joseph Haydn in the 18th century Austro-Hungarian court of Esterhazy.

Rupert Guenther is a new type of violinist-composer, specialising in bespoke performances of his own highly evocative improvisations. His unique form of creative artistry is a highly personal response to life, just as a painter paints his pictures onto a blank canvas. On this world premiere tour, the artist presents yet another full concert of his imaginative improvisations. He has independently released over 25 albums. This sonata was one of 5 new albums of the artist’s improvisations commissioned and recorded by ABC Classic FM. The music of this sonata is full of sunlight, appreciation and hope, yet tenderly handles moments of despair, the winter darkness, and delicate new growth with great compassion. The concert concludes with three short contemplative works “Hakone Maple” styled on the ancient tradition of Japanese shakuhachi flute music, “So Many Stars”, an Arabic-influenced composition, and “Wandjina”, a short work describing the mythological Wandjina figure and its relationship with the Australian desert landscape and the ancient culture of the land.

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”.

The New Letters To Esterhazy Sonata 1 is a set of exquisite improvisations for violin performed by the artist. Each movement depicts imaginary letters from the artist in 21st century Australia sent back in time to Austrian musician Joseph Haydn in the 18th century Austro-Hungarian court of Esterhazy.

Rupert Guenther is a new type of violinist-composer, specialising in bespoke performances of his own highly evocative improvisations. His unique form of creative artistry is a highly personal response to life, just as a painter paints his pictures onto a blank canvas. On this world premiere tour, the artist presents yet another full concert of his imaginative improvisations. He has independently released over 25 albums. This sonata was one of 5 new albums of the artist’s improvisations commissioned and recorded by ABC Classic FM. The music of this sonata is full of sunlight, appreciation and hope, yet tenderly handles moments of despair, the winter darkness, and delicate new growth with great compassion. The concert concludes with three short contemplative works “Hakone Maple” styled on the ancient tradition of Japanese shakuhachi flute music, “So Many Stars”, an Arabic-influenced composition, and “Wandjina”, a short work describing the mythological Wandjina figure and its relationship with the Australian desert landscape and the ancient culture of the land.

The New Letters To Esterhazy Sonata 1 is a set of exquisite improvisations for violin performed by the artist. Each movement depicts imaginary letters from the artist in 21st century Australia sent back in time to Austrian musician Joseph Haydn in the 18th century Austro-Hungarian court of Esterhazy.

Rupert Guenther is a new type of violinist-composer, specialising in bespoke performances of his own highly evocative improvisations. His unique form of creative artistry is a highly personal response to life, just as a painter paints his pictures onto a blank canvas. On this world premiere tour, the artist presents yet another full concert of his imaginative improvisations. He has independently released over 25 albums. This sonata was one of 5 new albums of the artist’s improvisations commissioned and recorded by ABC Classic FM. The music of this sonata is full of sunlight, appreciation and hope, yet tenderly handles moments of despair, the winter darkness, and delicate new growth with great compassion. The concert concludes with three short contemplative works “Hakone Maple” styled on the ancient tradition of Japanese shakuhachi flute music, “So Many Stars”, an Arabic-influenced composition, and “Wandjina”, a short work describing the mythological Wandjina figure and its relationship with the Australian desert landscape and the ancient culture of the land.

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A unique behind-the-scenes artist talk based on Rupert Guenther's upcoming “Ancient Messengers” concert at the WA Museum, and explains the creative journey of taking inspirations from visual, scientific, historic and cultural evidence and turning it into an array of evocative music and text.

No booking required. Cost is included in the general admission to the museum.

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.

A Concert of world music.

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Blues Show.

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