Rigour and Imagination: A Conversation with Anna Goldsworthy

25/08/2025 37 min Temporada 1 Episodio 9

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This week on AdChat, we sit down with Anna Goldsworthy - pianist, writer, director, and one of Australia’s most quietly powerful cultural voices.

She’s led from the stage and the page, built a life around discipline and creativity, and still finds time to write between school drop-off and concert prep. Now Director of the Elder Conservatorium - and incoming Artistic Director of ANAM - she’s defining a new generation of artists with rigour, empathy, and just the right amount of resistance.

We talk about memory, motherhood, the architecture of music - and what it means to lead in a space where fewer than 10% of works performed are composed by women.

Tune in for a conversation about craft, clarity and why great leadership doesn’t need to be loud.

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