Rupert Guenther

Self-Esteem Wellbeing & Healing Stage-Fright

Rupert Guenther’s Self-Esteem Wellbeing & Healing Stage-Fright is a completely new break-though approach to overcoming stage-fright (performance anxiety). It is exactly the opposite of almost everything performers are being encouraged to do, and is based on bringing every aspect of playing and teaching music into a delightful and self-healing experience for the musician, teacher or student. It starts by taking us to a place of being receptive, open and listening when we perform, and by including far more in our awareness instead of excluding and locking things out only to tighten into a narrow focus where many normal inputs are excluded (which is exactly the cause of the anxiety). In a series of simple, enjoyable, at-the-instrument re-orientations, violinist Rupert Guenther shows musicians 7 easy steps which really work, and which can be used even under the most demanding performance conditions to shift to an experience of feeling completely relaxed and at home on stage, doing what we love the most – sharing our music with others. Additionally includes (but is not limited to) some take-home simple meditation exercises anyone can do to develop more big picture awareness with self.

About Rupert Guenther

Rupert Guenther teaches holistic professional development at all levels, and offers sessions in traditional violin studies, chamber music coaching, string instrumental teacher training, 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. Private clients include teachers, professionals and principal players from some of Europe’s finest orchestras such as Zurich Opera and La Scala. His own international concert career includes performances of his own original works at Tate Britain, Museum of London Docklands, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Recital Centre, Bombora House NYC, and since 2003 he has independently released over 35 albums of his original music. Trained in Europe with the famous violin pedagogue Igor Ozim’s method of playing, Rupert studied extensively with two of Professor Ozim’s proteges Brian Finlayson and Hefried Fister in Klagenfurt, Austria, and attended Masterclasses and Summer Schools with professor Ozim in Australia and Europe. He was also influenced by Norwegian violinist Professor Terje Moe Hansen his all-interval approach to playing. In his teens he studied with Harry Hutchins who was a student of Carl Flesch in Paris.