Piano Lessons

Author: Anna Goldsworthy

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  • : $23.00 AUD
  • : 9781863955355
  • : Black Inc.
  • : Black Inc.
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  • : 0.24
  • : May 2011
  • : 22.95
  • : December 2013
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  • : Anna Goldsworthy
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  • : Paperback
  • : 2nd New edition
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  • : en
  • : 240
  • : BM
  • : black & white illustrations
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Barcode 9781863955355
9781863955355

Description

In this remarkable memoir, Anna Goldsworthy recalls her first steps towards a life in music, from childhood piano lessons with a local jazz muso to international success as a concert pianist. As she discovers passion and ambition, and confronts doubt and disappointment, she learns about much more than tone and technique. This is a story of the getting of wisdom, tender and bittersweet.


With wit and affection, Goldsworthy captures the hopes and uncertainties of youth, the fear and exhilaration of performing, and the complex bonds between teacher and student. An unforgettable cast of characters joins her: her family; her friends and rivals; and her teacher, Mrs Sivan, who inspires and challenges her in equal measure, and who transforms what seems an impossible dream into something real and sustaining.


Winner of the Newcomer of the Year at the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards


Shortlisted, 2012 Melbourne Prize, the Colin Roderick Award, the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Author description

Anna Goldsworthy's writing has appeared in the Monthly, the Age, the Adelaide Review and Best Australian Essays. She has won numerous prizes and scholarships for piano performance. In 2004, she completed a world tour performing in festivals and concert halls in Australia, Asia, Europe and North and South America. Her solo CD, Come With Us, was released in early 2008. In that same year she collaborated with her father, Peter Goldsworthy, on a theatrical adaptation of his book Maestro, which drew inspiration from her early life.