Anna Louise Goldsworthy is an Australian classical pianist, writer, academic, playwright, and librettist, known for her 2009 memoir Piano Lessons.

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.

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).

[10] Since 1998 and as of September 2022[update], the trio consists of Helen Ayres on violin, Timothy Nankervis on cello, and Goldsworthy on piano.

[10] The trio studied chamber music with Hatto Beyerle[10] at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.

[citation needed] 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.

[22] Piano Lessons was adapted by Goldsworthy, commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival[9] (with Deborah Conway at the helm) in August 2011.

[24] 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.

[30] 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".

[37][25] Goldsworthy was appointed artistic director of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival in May 2009, succeeding her ANAM mentor Stephen McIntyre from 2010.

[39] 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 the arts and her feelings about her work:[34]One of the beautiful things about music is it's fundamentally non-materialist.