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42-588: 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 as of 2023 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

84-535: 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 . 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

126-747: 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

168-692: A smaller number opt for full-time solo careers. Mozart could be considered the first concert pianist, as he performed widely on the piano. Composers Beethoven and Clementi from the Classical era were also famed for their playing, as were, from the Romantic era , Liszt , Brahms , Chopin , Mendelssohn , Rachmaninoff , and Schumann . The Romantic era also saw the emergence of pianists better known for their performances than for composing, such as Clara Schumann and Hans von Bülow . Jazz pianists almost always perform with other musicians. Their playing

210-428: Is in two symmetrical sections, like the second movement. However, the movement differs from the second movement in the absence of unusual chromaticism , and in the second section being an exact transposition of the first (except for some changes of octave register). A repeat sign is written for the first section: if one adheres meticulously to the score, the movement consists of three lengthy, almost identical repeats of

252-526: Is known as the Trout because the fourth movement is a set of variations on Schubert's earlier Lied " Die Forelle " ("The Trout"). The quintet was written for Sylvester Paumgartner, a wealthy music patron and amateur cellist from Steyr , Upper Austria, who also suggested that Schubert include a set of variations on the Lied. Sets of variations on melodies from his Lieder are found in four other works by Schubert:

294-657: Is more free than that of classical pianists, and they create an air of spontaneity in their performances. They generally do not write down their compositions; improvisation is a significant part of their work. Well known jazz pianists include Bill Evans , Art Tatum , Duke Ellington , Thelonious Monk , Oscar Peterson , Bud Powell , McCoy Tyner , Chick Corea , Herbie Hancock , and Brad Mehldau . Popular pianists might work as live performers (concert, theatre, etc.) or session musicians . Arrangers most likely feel at home with synthesizers and other electronic keyboard instruments. Notable popular pianists include Liberace , who at

336-485: Is the author of numerous published articles, essays, and books. Classical pianist Contemporary classical pianists focus on dedicating their careers to performing, recording, teaching, researching, and continually adding new compositions to their repertoire. In contrast to their 19th-century counterparts, they typically do not engage in the composition or transcription of music. While some classical pianists may specialize in accompaniment and chamber music ,

378-818: Is the shift from tonic to dominant (or, more rarely, to mediant or submediant – but never to the subdominant). Compared to other major chamber works by Schubert, such as the last three string quartets and the string quintet , the Trout Quintet is a leisurely work, characterized by lower structural coherence, especially in its outer movements and the Andante. These movements contain unusually long repetitions of previously stated material, sometimes transposed, with little or no structural reworking, aimed at generating an overall unified dramatic design ("mechanical" in Martin Chusid's words ). The importance of

420-662: The Death and the Maiden Quartet , the "Trockne Blumen" (dried flowers) Variations for Flute and Piano (D. 802), the Wanderer Fantasy , and the Fantasia for Violin and Piano in C major (D. 934, on "Sei mir gegrüßt"). The quintet consists of five movements : The rising sextuplet figure from the song's accompaniment is used as a unifying motif throughout the quintet, and related figures appear in four out of

462-714: The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra 's "She Speaks" festival with Anne Cawrse , 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. 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". In an interview with Adelaide paper CityMag , Goldsworthy expressed some of her beliefs about

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504-632: 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 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

546-566: The European Parliament for his "outstanding contribution to European cooperation and the promotion of common values". Trout Quintet The Trout Quintet ( Forellenquintett ) is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major , D. 667, by Franz Schubert . The piano quintet was composed in 1819, when he was 22 years old; it was not published, however, until 1829, a year after his death. Rather than

588-792: 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. In 2022, she was director of the Hayllar Music and Mountains Festival in Queenstown, New Zealand , and co-curator of

630-459: The subdominant , making any modulatory changes in the transition to the second theme unnecessary, a frequent phenomenon in early sonata form movements written by Schubert. It differs from the exposition only in omitting the opening bars and another short section, before the closing theme. This movement is composed of two symmetrical sections, the second being a transposed version of the first, except for some differences of modulation which allow

672-495: The arts and her feelings about her work: 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,

714-630: The basis of Christopher Nupen 's 1969 film The Trout , in which Itzhak Perlman , Pinchas Zukerman , Jacqueline du Pré , Daniel Barenboim and Zubin Mehta perform it at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. A portion of the Trout Quintet ' s fifth movement, performed by the Nash Ensemble , is used as the theme music for the BBC television comedy Waiting for God . The third movement performed by

756-577: The beginning of the final sixth variation. A similar process is heard in three of Schubert's later compositions: the Octet in F major, D. 803 (fourth movement); the Piano Sonata in A minor, D. 845 (second movement); and the Impromptu in B ♭ major, D. 935 No. 3 . The concluding variation is similar to the original Lied, sharing the same characteristic accompaniment in the piano. The Finale

798-448: The beginning of the piece: after stating the tonic for ten bars, the harmony shifts abruptly into F major (the flatted submediant) in the eleventh bar. The development section starts with a similar abrupt shift, from E major (at the end of the exposition) to C major. Harmonic movement is slow at first, but becomes quicker; towards the return of the first theme, the harmony modulates in ascending half tones. The recapitulation begins in

840-485: 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

882-454: The five movements – all but the Scherzo . As in the song, the figure is usually introduced by the piano, ascending. The first movement is in sonata form . As is commonplace in works of the Classical genre, the exposition shifts from tonic to dominant ; however, Schubert's harmonic language is innovative, incorporating many mediants and submediants . This is evident from almost

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924-425: The height of his fame was one of the highest paid entertainers in the world , as well as Elton John and Billy Joel , so nicknamed "The Piano Man", others include Richard Clayderman , who is known for his covers of popular tunes and the late Victor Borge , who performed as a comedian. A single listing of pianists in all genres would be impractical, given the multitude of musicians noted for their performances on

966-432: The instrument. Below are links to lists of well-known or influential pianists divided by genres: Many important composers were also virtuoso pianists. The following is an incomplete list of such musicians. Some people, having received a solid piano training in their youth, decide not to continue their musical careers but choose nonmusical ones. As a result, there are prominent communities of amateur pianists all over

1008-687: 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

1050-604: The movement to end in the same key in which it began. Tonal layout (with some intermediate keys of lower structural significance omitted) as follows: This movement also contains mediant tonalities, such as the ending of the first section of the Scherzo proper, which is in C major, the flattened mediant, or the relative major of the parallel minor ( A minor ). The fourth movement is a theme and variations on Schubert's Lied " Die Forelle ". As typical of some other variation movements by Schubert (in contrast to Beethoven's style),

1092-564: 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

1134-402: The piece stems mainly from its use of an original and innovative harmonic language, rich in mediants and chromaticism , and from its timbral characteristics. The Trout Quintet has a unique sonority among chamber works for piano and strings, due mainly to the piano part, which for substantial sections of the piece concentrates on the highest register of the instrument, with both hands playing

1176-522: The same melodic line an octave apart (having been freed to do so by the inclusion of both cello and bass in the ensemble). Such writing also occurs in other chamber works by Schubert, such as the piano trios, but to a much lesser extent, and is characteristic of Schubert's works for piano four-hands , one of his most personal musical genres. Such timbral writing may have influenced the works of Romantic composers such as Frédéric Chopin , who admired Schubert's music for piano four-hands. The quintet forms

1218-479: The same musical material. Performers sometimes choose to omit the repeat of the first section when playing. Although this movement lacks the chromaticism of the second movement, its own harmonic design is also innovative: the first section ends in D major , the subdominant. This is contradictory to the aesthetics of the Classical musical style, in which the first major harmonic event in a musical piece or movement,

1260-538: 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 . Her memoir Piano Lessons was released by Black Inc in Australia in September 2009, and internationally by Macmillan in 2010. It

1302-683: 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. Welcome to Your New Life , also

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1344-706: 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 . In 2001,

1386-724: 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. 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

1428-445: The usual piano quintet ensemble of piano and string quartet , the Trout Quintet is written for piano , violin , viola , cello and double bass . According to Schubert's friend Albert Stadler, it was modelled on the quintet version of Johann Nepomuk Hummel 's Septet in D Minor for Flute, Oboe, Horn, Viola, Cello, Bass and Piano, Op. 74. It may also have been influenced by Hummel's Quintet in E flat minor, Op. 87 . The piece

1470-420: The variations do not transform the original theme into new thematic material; rather, they concentrate on melodic decoration and changes of mood. In each of the first few variations, the main theme is played by a different instrument or group. In the fifth variation, Schubert begins in the flat submediant (B ♭ major), and creates a series of modulations eventually leading back to the movement's main key, at

1512-702: The world that play at quite a high level and give concerts not to earn money but just for the love of music. The International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs , held annually in Paris , attracts about one thousand listeners each year and is broadcast on French radio. Jon Nakamatsu , the Gold Medal winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for professional pianists in Fort Worth, Texas (1997)

1554-844: 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. In 2009 Goldsworthy

1596-521: 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 . Goldsworthy is a founding member of the musical trio Seraphim Trio, established in 1995. Since 1998 and as of September 2022,

1638-423: Was at the moment of his victory technically an amateur: he never attended a music conservatory or majored in music, and worked as a high school German teacher at the time; it was only after the competition that he started pursuing a career as a classical pianist. The German pianist Davide Martello is known for traveling around conflict zones to play his moving piano. Martello has previously been recognized by

1680-512: 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 . From at least 2009 and until 2011 or later Goldsworthy

1722-550: 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

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1764-470: 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 As of August 2021, Goldworthy was director of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. Since 18 July 2022 and as of 2023 she is director of the Elder Conservatorium. Goldsworthy was appointed artistic director of

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