Anna Goldsworthy

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.

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.

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.

Goldsworthy is a founding member of the musical trio Seraphim Trio, 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.

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

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).

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 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.

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.

It comprises performances by Goldsworthy from a 2004 world tour.

In 2007, they launched a national concert series.

Her debut solo CD, Come With Us, was released by ABC Classics in January 2008.

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.

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

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

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.

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

In March 2010 Seraphim Trio recorded Schubert's Trout Quintet for ABC Classics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The show, which showcased the music of Cole Porter and Peter Allen, was again performed in 2020 at the Regal Theatre, Adelaide.

She published her third book, Melting Moments, her first work of fiction, on 3 March 2020.