Anna Goldsworthy

Anna Louise Goldsworthy was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the eldest daughter of the writer Peter Goldsworthy and Helen Goldsworthy, who graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Adelaide.{{Cite journal |title= Goldsworthy graduates leave their mark|journal=Lumen |url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/lumen/issues/45341/news45701.html|issue= Winter 2011 |access-date=2023-09-11 |publisher=University of Adelaide| first=Robyn| last=Mills}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Anna Goldsworthy as Elder Conservatorium leader in Adelaide from 2022 after a symphony of music achievements |url=https://adelaideaz.com/articles/anna-goldsworthy-makes-wide-musical-contribution-form-adelaide-as-piano-and-chamber-player--writer--academic-and-festivals-director |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=Adelaide AZ |language=English}}

She joined the Advanced Performance Program at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in Melbourne in 1999. Here she was mentored by Stephen McIntyre (an association which led to her later assuming the role of artistic director at the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival).{{cite web | first=Bridget|last= Davies| date=18 November 2022 | title=In the Director's Chair | website=ANAM | url=https://anam.com.au/anam-blog/in-the-director-s-chair | access-date=14 November 2023}}

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".{{Cite thesis |last=Goldsworthy |first=Anna Louise |date=2002 |title=Fanny Hensel and virtuosity |url=http://hdl.handle.net/11343/38321| publisher= University of Melbourne| type=PhD}}

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

Goldsworthy has stated that the highlights of her career have included solo piano appearances at the Teatro Colón in the Buenos Aires; for the Orchestra of Colours in Athens, Greece; at the Melbourne International Arts Festival; and in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's Masters Series.{{cite web | title=Anna Goldsworthy | website=Booked Out Speakers Agency | url=https://bookedout.com.au/find-a-speaker/author/anna-goldsworthy/ | access-date=6 November 2023}}

In 2009 Goldsworthy was a juror for Chamber Music Australia's Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition.{{cite interview|interviewer-first=Robin|interviewer-last= Usher |first=Anna |last=Goldsworthy | title=Creating our own star chamber | website=The Age | date=15 June 2009 | url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/creating-our-own-star-chamber-20090615-ge7xl6.html | access-date=13 November 2023}}

Her debut solo CD, Come With Us, was released by ABC Classics in January 2008.{{cite web | title=Anna Goldsworthy | website=The Wheeler Centre | date=31 March 2022 | url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/people/anna-goldsworthy/ | access-date=14 November 2023}} It comprises performances by Goldsworthy from a 2004 world tour.{{cite web | title=Music | website=Anna Goldsworthy | url=http://www.annagoldsworthy.com/music | access-date=14 November 2023}}

In July 2010 she recorded for ABC Classics the music that features in her book Piano Lessons.

Goldsworthy is a founding member of the musical trio Seraphim Trio,{{Cite web |title=Leadership |website= Janet Clarke Hall |publisher= University of Melbourne |url=https://jch.unimelb.edu.au/Leadership~83 |access-date=2023-09-11 }} established in 1995.{{cite web | title=About Seraphim Trio | website=Tempo Rubato| date= September 2022 | url=https://www.temporubato.com.au/about-seraphim-trio | access-date=9 November 2023}} Since 1998 and {{as of|lc=yes| September 2022}}, the trio consists of Helen Ayres on violin, Timothy Nankervis on cello, and Goldsworthy on piano.{{cite web | title=FREE FRIDAY: Seraphim Trio | website=Tempo Rubato | date=2 September 2022 | url=https://www.temporubato.com.au/tempo-concerts/seraphimtrio | access-date=9 November 2023}} 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.

The trio studied chamber music with Hatto Beyerle at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.

In 2001, the trio won the trio and audience choice prizes in the Australian National Chamber Music Competition (forerunner to the Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition).

In 2007, they launched a national concert series. In March 2010 Seraphim Trio recorded Schubert's Trout Quintet for ABC Classics.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

In 2019, Seraphim Trio released the CD Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds, with Paul Kelly, James Ledger, and Alice Keath, which won an ARIA Award. In the same year, the trio released a multi-CD set Trio Through Time, which followed the history of the piano trio from Mozart and Haydn until the present day.

Goldsworthy has published numerous essays on music and cultural issues, including many articles for The Monthly.{{cite web | title=Anna Goldsworthy | website=The Monthly | url=https://www.themonthly.com.au/author/anna-goldsworthy | access-date=9 November 2023}}

Her memoir Piano Lessons was released by Black Inc in Australia in September 2009,{{cite web | last=Hyles | first=Claudia | title=Mestra | website=Australian Book Review | date=November 2009 | url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2009/287-november-2009-no-316/11031-claudia-hyles-reviews-piano-lessons-by-anna-goldsworthy | access-date=9 November 2023| url-access=subscription}}{{cite web | title=Piano Lessons (2009), by Anna Goldsworthy | website=ANZ LitLovers LitBlog | date=17 October 2009 | url=https://anzlitlovers.com/2009/10/18/piano-lessons-2009-by-anna-goldsworthy/ | access-date=9 November 2023}} and internationally by Macmillan in 2010.{{cite web | title=Macmillan: Piano Lessons: A Memoir Anna Goldsworthy: Books | website=us.macmillan.com | date=3 September 2010 | url=http://us.macmillan.com/pianolessons | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903190206/http://us.macmillan.com/pianolessons | archive-date=3 September 2010 | url-status=dead | access-date=9 November 2023}}

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{{cite web | title=BREAKING NEWS: 2010 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Shortlists| website=Booktopia | date=8 April 2010 | url=https://www.booktopia.com.au/blog/2010/04/08/breaking-news-2010-nsw-premiers-literary-awards-shortlists/ | access-date=14 November 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://entree-media.records.nsw.gov.au/pairtree/acb56d6a7eba4f389f7081a5b558bebc/cf/9d/ec/47/96/3d/49/02/ba/3d/40/b0/7c/52/3a/d2/0/100407-Premiers-Literary-Awards.pdf| title= 2010 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards| date=7 April 2010| publisher= NSW Government}} and the Newcomer of the Year, winning the latter.{{cite web | title=Piano Lessons by Anna Goldsworthy | website=Black Inc. | date=6 March 2023 | url=https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/piano-lessons | access-date=6 November 2023}}{{cite web | last=Middlemiss | first=Perry | title=2010 Australian Book Industry Award Winners | website=Perry Middlemiss's Home Page | date=20 July 2010 | url=http://www.middlemiss.org/matilda/2010/07/2010-australian-book-industry-award-winners.html | access-date=14 November 2023}} The book was sold to St. Martin's Press in the U.S.,{{cite web | title=Macmillan: Piano Lessons: A Memoir Anna Goldsworthy: Books | website=us.macmillan.com | date=3 September 2010 | url=http://us.macmillan.com/pianolessons | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903190206/http://us.macmillan.com/pianolessons | archive-date=3 September 2010 | url-status=dead }} and the film rights to the book were sold to director Ana Kokkinos in 2010.{{cite web | title=Development approvals | website=Screen Australia | date=16 March 2018 | url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-support/feature-films/funding-approvals/in-the-archive/development-approvals/2010 | access-date=14 November 2023}}

Goldsworthy is credited alongside her father, Peter Goldsworthy, as writing the stage adaptation of Maestro which the State Theatre Company of South Australia performed in 2009.

Piano Lessons was adapted by Goldsworthy, commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival (with Deborah Conway at the helm) in August 2011. Goldsworthy played herself in the production, which was staged at the Cremorne Theatre at QPAC before touring the state.{{cite web | title=Piano Lessons | website=Matrix Theatre | date=6 February 2019 | url=https://www.matrixinperformance.com/portfolio/piano-lessons/ | access-date=14 November 2023| format=video + text}}

Welcome to Your New Life, also a memoir, was released by Black Inc in March 2013.[http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/welcome-to-your-new-life-20130518-2jt0b.html "Review Welcome to Your New Life"] by Daniel Herborn, The Age, 18 May 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.{{cite web | last=Meegan | first=Genevieve | title=Motherhood has never felt less lonely for Anna Goldsworthy | website=InReview | date=3 November 2023 | url=https://inreview.com.au/inreview/theatre/2023/11/03/motherhood-has-never-felt-less-lonely-for-anna-goldsworthy/ | access-date=6 November 2023}}

Goldsworthy wrote a cabaret show, Cole, performed by Michael Griffiths at the Festival Theatre, Adelaide in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in June 2015,{{cite web | title=Michael Griffiths | website=Stage Whispers | url=https://www.stagewhispers.com.au/reviews/michael-griffiths-cole|first= Benjamin |last=Orchard | access-date=6 November 2023}} for which he won a Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer in 2016. The show, which showcased the music of Cole Porter and Peter Allen, was again performed in 2020 at the Regal Theatre, Adelaide.{{cite web | last=Stefanoff | first=Ben | title=Interview: Michael Griffiths – Being Regal In Adelaide With Cole Porter And Peter Allen | website=Glam Adelaide | date=8 October 2020 | url=https://glamadelaide.com.au/interview-michael-griffiths-being-regal-in-adelaide-with-cole-porter-and-peter-allen/ | access-date=6 November 2023}}

She published her third book, Melting Moments, her first work of fiction,{{Cite web|title=Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy|url=https://www.readings.com.au/review/melting-moments-by-anna-goldsworthy |website=www.readings.com.au |access-date=2020-05-07}} on 3 March 2020.{{Cite book|url=https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/melting-moments|title=Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy|date=2019-09-02}} It is a domestic book set in South Australia beginning in 1941, with the main character, Ruby, who travels to Adelaide.{{Cite book |last=Goldsworthy |first=Anna| title=Melting Moments|publisher=Black Inc.|year=2020|isbn=9781863959988|location=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".{{Cite web|title=From Fact to Fiction|url=https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/events/2020-writers-week/from-fact-to-fiction/|publisher=Adelaide Festival|access-date=2020-05-07}}

Goldsworthy wrote the libretto for Victorian Opera's award-winning production of The Magic Pudding, staged in October 2013.{{cite web | title=The Magic Pudding | website= Victorian Opera| date=14 January 2014 | url=http://victorianopera.com.au/what-s-on/2013-past-productions/pudding/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203230835/http://victorianopera.com.au/what-s-on/2013-past-productions/pudding/ | archive-date=3 February 2014 | url-status=dead | access-date=6 November 2023}} She wrote the libretto for their December 2022 production of A Christmas Carol.{{cite web| url=https://www.victorianopera.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Victorian-Opera-2022-A-Christmas-Carol-Programme-WEB-1.pdf| publisher= Victorian Opera| title= A Christmas Carol}}

From at least 2009 and until 2011 or later Goldsworthy was teaching piano at the University of Melbourne. She returned to Adelaide in 2013, and took up a post at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide{{cite interview | interviewer-last=Bezzina | interviewer-first=Lauren| first= Anna|last= Goldsworthy | title=My Adelaide with Anna Goldsworthy | website=CityMag | date=20 June 2016 | url=https://citymag.indaily.com.au/habits/my-adelaide/my-adelaide-with-anna-goldsworthy/ | access-date=14 November 2023}} {{as of|August 2021}}, Goldworthy was director of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.

Since 18 July 2022{{cite web | title=Pianist Anna Goldsworthy appointed director of the Elder Conservatorium of Music | website=University of Adelaide| series=Newsroom | date=14 July 2022 | url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2022/07/14/pianist-anna-goldsworthy-appointed-director-of-the-elder-conservatorium-of| first=Crispin|last=Savage | access-date=13 November 2023}} and {{as of|2023|lc=yes}} she is director of the Elder Conservatorium.{{cite web | title=Professor Anna Goldsworthy | website=University of Adelaide| series=Researcher Profiles | url=https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/anna.goldsworthy#career | access-date=13 November 2023}}

Goldsworthy was appointed artistic director of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival in May 2009, succeeding her ANAM mentor Stephen McIntyre from 2010.

From 2019 she was artistic director of the Coriole Music Festival in McLaren Vale, until she was appointed director of the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide in July 2022.[https://limelightmagazine.com.au/news/simon-cobcroft-appointed-artistic-director-of-coriole-music-festival/ "Simon Cobcroft appointed Artistic Director of Coriole Music Festival"] by Lily Bryant, Limelight, 11 August 2022

In 2022, she was director of the Hayllar Music and Mountains Festival in Queenstown, New Zealand, and co-curator of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's "She Speaks" festival with Anne Cawrse,{{cite web | title=About | website=Anna Goldsworthy | url=http://www.annagoldsworthy.com/about | access-date=14 November 2023}} a classical music festival with a focus on music written by female composers.{{Cite web|date=17 June 2021|title=A classical music festival celebrating music not composed by 'dead white men'|url=https://citymag.indaily.com.au/culture/a-classical-music-festival-celebrating-music-not-composed-by-dead-white-men/|access-date=14 November 2023|website=CityMag }} She also co-curated the PianoLab festival with Anne Wiberg in 2022.

She has said of these directorships that she finds fulfilment in the caretaker or pastoral care role, of both people and music: "[giving] them opportunities to be themselves and to flourish, make contact with an audience – I really love doing that".

• ?: Arts SA Emerging Artist Award
• Sometime before 2004: David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship for Pianists{{cite web | title=David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship for Pianists | website= State of the Arts | date=24 August 2004 | url=http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=2879 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406074213/http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=2879 | archive-date=6 April 2011 | url-status=unfit }}{{cite web| url=https://musica-viva-production.azurewebsites.net/media/ldvb5bi0/2010-musicaviva-annual_report-1.pdf| author= Musica Viva| title= Annual Report 2010|date= 2010}}
• 2009: Artist-in-residence at Janet Clarke Hall
• 2018?: Inaugural Kenneth Moore Memorial Music Scholar at Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne

• 2010: Winner, Newcomer of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA Awards), for Piano Lessons
• 2010: Shortlisted, Best Writing Award (in the Melbourne Prize for Literature awards), for Piano Lessons
• 2010: Shortlisted, ABIA Awards for Best Non-Fiction, for Piano Lessons
• 2010: Shortlisted, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, for Piano Lessons
• 2011: Shortlisted, National Biography Award, for Piano Lessons
• 201?: Nominated, Matilda Award, for stage adaption of Piano Lessons{{cite web | title= Anna Goldsworthy| website=Speaking Out | date=15 October 2019 | url=https://speakingout.com.au/speaker/anna-goldsworthy/ | access-date=6 November 2023}}
• 2020: Shortlisted, Colin Roderick Award{{Cite web|date=2010-09-23|title=The Colin Roderick Award shortlist|url=https://www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/the-colin-roderick-award-shortlist|access-date=2021-08-04|website=Text Publishing}}
• 2021: Shortlisted,Colin Roderick Award{{Cite web|date=2021-08-02|title=Woman and fiction dominate the 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award Shortlist|url=https://www.jcu.edu.au/foundation-for-australian-literary-studies/news/woman-and-fiction-dominate-the-2021-colin-roderick-literary-award-shortlist|access-date=2021-08-04|website=James Cook University}}
• 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"{{cite web | title=Congratulations to Anna Goldsworthy | website= J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice | date=18 August 2021 | url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/jmcoetzeecentre/news/list/2021/08/18/congratulations-to-anna-goldsworthy | access-date=6 November 2023}}

In an interview with Adelaide paper CityMag, Goldsworthy expressed some of her beliefs about the arts and her feelings about her work:{{quote|

One of the beautiful things about music is it's fundamentally non-materialist. You create something that vanishes into the air and it's about the moment, its about the connection, it's about sitting in that Hall [Elder Hall], for instance, and collectively inhabiting the space.

I think I used to really cut myself up thinking I have to choose between music and writing, mostly because of time... I used to think I had to choose but as time goes on, the more I think I can't. They do speak to each other and I love them both and I love projects in which I can bring the two of them together.

What I find so restorative about the classical music tradition is I think there's an idealism and even a sincerity and earnestness at its hub and I think those things have become a bit of a casualty of modern life. It's very easy, and I’ve found it very easy in my own writing, to be paralysed by irony and trying to be too clever by half and in some ways music has taught me how to reveal more of myself in my writing and be more comfortable with being more naked in my writing.}}

Goldsworthy has two siblings, and two children.

Goldsworthy is the author of numerous published articles, essays, and books.{{cite web | title=Professor Anna Goldsworthy: Publications | website=University of Adelaide| series=Researcher Profiles | url=https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/anna.goldsworthy#publications | access-date=13 November 2023}}

• {{cite book |last=Goldsworthy|first=Anna|title=Piano Lessons |location=Collingwood, Victoria|publisher=Black Inc. |year=2011 |isbn=9781863955355|ref=none}}
• {{cite book |last=Goldsworthy|first=Anna|author-mask=1 |title=Welcome to Your New Life |location=Collingwood, Victoria|publisher=Black Inc. |year=2014 |isbn=9781863956451|ref=none}}
• {{Cite book|editor-last=Goldsworthy|editor-first=Anna|editor-mask=1|title=The Best Australian Essays 2017|publisher=Black Inc.|year=2017|isbn=9781863959605|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|last=Goldsworthy|first=Anna|author-mask=1|title=Melting Moments|location=Collingwood, Victoria|publisher=Black Inc.|year=2020|isbn=9781743820858|ref=none}}

• Numerous articles in The Monthly
• "Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny" in Quarterly Essay, no. 50, June 2013 {{ISBN|9781863956024}}

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• {{cite journal|last=Robertson|first=Rachel|date=April 2013 |title=Welcome to Your New Life| url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2013/98-april-2013-no-350/1441-anna-goldsworthy-on-motherhood|journal=Australian Book Review |volume=350 |page=50|url-access= subscription}} (Review)

• {{official|http://www.annagoldsworthy.com/}}
• {{official|https://seraphimtrio.com/| Seraphim Trio}}
• [https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A21236 Anna Goldsworthy] on AustLit
• [https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/246990 Anna Goldsworthy] on AusStage
• [https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/musicshow/mau-power-torres-strait-islands-hip-hop-seraphim-trio-piano-trio/11768730 Mau Power, Torres Strait Islands' first rapper, and the history of the piano trio courtesy of Seraphim Trio] (podcast) The Music Show, 8 December 2019

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