Anna Goldsworthy

Anna Louise Goldsworthy is an Australian classical pianist, writer, academic, playwright, and librettist, known for her 2009 memoir Piano Lessons. She has held several academic positions, and is director of the Elder Conservatorium at the University of Adelaide. She is a founder member of the Seraphim Trio, which has toured Australia and the world since 1995.

She is the daughter of writer Peter Goldsworthy.

Early life and education Anna Louise Goldsworthy

She began studying the piano at the age of six. At the age of eleven she was accepted into the Elder Conservatorium (part of Adelaide University), studying with the pedagogue Eleonora Sivan, to whom she attributes the fact that she is now a pianist. Goldsworthy completed her Bachelor of Music degree with honours at the Elder Conservatorium before acquiring a Master of Music degree at Texas Christian University, where she held the F. Howard and Mary D. Walsh Graduate Piano Scholarship and studied with Tamás Ungár.

She joined the Advanced Performance Program at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)

In 2004, Goldsworthy graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree under the supervision of Ronald Farren-Price. Her thesis topic was "Fanny Hensel and Virtuosity".

Goldsworthy has studied in Moscow with Lev Naumov with the support of an Arts SA Emerging Artist Award.

In 2009 Goldsworthy was a juror for Chamber Music Australia's Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition.

Her debut solo CD, Come With Us, was released by ABC Classics in January 2008. It comprises performances by Goldsworthy from a 2004 world tour.

In July 2010 she recorded for ABC Classics the music that features in her book Piano Lessons. established in 1995. Since 1998 and , the trio consists of Helen Ayres on violin, Timothy Nankervis on cello, and Goldsworthy on piano. Seraphim Trio has performed throughout Asia and Europe, and appears regularly in Australia for Musica Viva. They play regularly at Elder Hall in Adelaide, Epsom House near Hobart in Tasmania, and the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Her memoir Piano Lessons was released by Black Inc in Australia in September 2009, and internationally by Macmillan in 2010.

It was shortlisted in the 2010 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Best Non-Fiction and in the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards in the categories of Best Non-Fiction and the Newcomer of the Year, winning the latter. The book was sold to St. Martin's Press in the U.S., and the film rights to the book were sold to director Ana Kokkinos in 2010.

Goldsworthy is credited alongside her father, Peter Goldsworthy, as writing the stage adaptation of Maestro

Welcome to Your New Life, also a memoir, was released by Black Inc in March 2013. Goldsworthy adapted it for the stage for the State Theatre Company South Australia's closing play for the 2023 season, an idea raised by artistic director Mitchell Butel.

Goldsworthy wrote a cabaret show, Cole, performed by Michael Griffiths at the Festival Theatre, Adelaide in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in June 2015, for which he won a Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer in 2016.

She published her third book, Melting Moments, her first work of fiction, on 3 March 2020. It is a domestic book set in South Australia beginning in 1941, with the main character, Ruby, who travels to Adelaide. It was officially released at the 2020 Adelaide Writers' Week, with an interview of Goldsworthy and Black Inc. author Anna Krien, who discussed how it felt going from "fact to fiction".

Goldsworthy wrote the libretto for Victorian Opera's award-winning production of The Magic Pudding, staged in October 2013. She wrote the libretto for their December 2022 production of A Christmas Carol.

Academic positions From at least 2009 , Goldworthy was director of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. and she is director of the Elder Conservatorium.

In 2022, she was director of the Hayllar Music and Mountains Festival in Queenstown, New Zealand, a classical music festival with a focus on music written by female composers. She also co-curated the PianoLab festival with Anne Wiberg in 2022. 2009: Artist-in-residence at Janet Clarke Hall 2020: Shortlisted, Colin Roderick Award 2021: Awarded a linkage grant by the Australian Research Council "to undertake research to find new ways of tackling the challenges facing the Australian performing arts sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change emergency"

Music-writing relationship In an interview with Adelaide paper CityMag, Goldsworthy expressed some of her beliefs about the arts and her feelings about her work:

Books

Essays and reporting Numerous articles in The Monthly "Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny" in Quarterly Essay, no. 50, June 2013