Anna Goldsworthy
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Anna Goldsworthy (born 1974) is an Australian classical pianist and writer.
Goldsworthy is recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships for piano performance, including the David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship. In 2004, she completed a world tour performing in festivals and concert halls in Australia, Asia, Europe and North and South America. Highlights included appearances at the Teatro Colon for the Buenos Aires International Music Festival, at the Prince Yong Theatre in Beijing, for the Orchestra of Colours in Athens, and for the Festivale Muscale delli Nazioni in Rome. In 2005, she performed the Clara Schumann concerto in the Masters series of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and undertook a three-month residency at the Australia Council Studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
Goldsworthy was born in Adelaide, and began studying the piano at the age of six. At the age of eleven, she was accepted into the Elder Conservatorium, studying with the distinguished pedagogue, Eleonora Sivan, to whom she attributes the fact that she is now a pianist. Anna 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 Tamas Ungar. In 2004, she graduated from the University of Melbourne with the degree Doctor of Musical Arts, under the supervision of Ronald Farren-Price, who has also been an important mentor. Her thesis topic was ‘Fanny Hensel and Virtuosity’. Additionally, Anna has studied in Moscow with Lev Naumov, with the support of an ArtsSA Emerging Artist Award, and in the Advanced Performance Program at the Australian National Academy of Music.
Alongside Goldsworthy's solo performances, she has received acclaim as a chamber musician. She is a founding member of the Seraphim Trio, which has performed throughout Asia and Europe, and appears regularly in Australia for Musica Viva. The trio studied chamber music with Hatto Beyerle at the Höchschule für Musik in Hanover, and was awarded the prize for the Leading Piano Trio in the 2001 National Chamber Music Competition. In 2007, the trio will be releasing its debut CD and launching a national concert series.
Goldsworthy currently teaches piano at the University of Melbourne, and is Artist-in-Residence at Janet Clarke Hall. She has published numerous essays on music and cultural issues, and writes regularly for The Monthly. Goldsworthy is the presenter of Musica Viva’s Melbourne Coffee Concerts. Her two-part radio documentary on the Mendelssohn siblings, ‘Art is not for women: only for girls’, was broadcast on ABC-FM in 2004.
Goldsworthy's debut solo CD, Come with Us, was released by ABC Classics in January 2008.
