Professor Anna Goldsworthy to Give ABC Boyer Lecture on Classical Music in the Contemporary Age

Professor Anna Goldsworthy. Photo: Alex Frayne

In a series of four orations delivered by noted musicians and luminaries, the 2024 ABC Boyer Lectures will explore the state of classical music in Australia in the contemporary age. The series will commence with Professor Anna Goldsworthy delivering a moving lecture with live music exploring the connections between life and music on Thursday 31 October at the ABC Ultimo Studios. The lecture will be broadcast on ABC TV and ABC iview on Friday 1 November and later heard on ABC Radio National on Saturday 2 November.
 

Professor Goldsworthy's lecture will be followed by lectures on Radio National throughout November by Lyn Williams AM, founder and director of Gondwana Choirs; Iain Grandage, leading Australian composer and former Artistic Director of the Perth Festival; and accomplished violist, conductor and composer, Aaron Wyatt.

2024 celebrates the 65th anniversary of the ABC/Boyer Lectures, and this will be the first time music features as a Boyer Lecture subject. The distinguished composer, writer and ABC broadcaster Andrew Ford (long-term presenter of The Music Show on Radio National) will host the four speakers and link the series.
 

'Performing is an act of communion: with the composer, with your colleagues, but also – critically – with your audience, which almost wills the experience into being. It offers a mode of connection that can feel telepathic. It was the internet before the internet; it is a social media that feeds rather than depletes.'

– Professor Anna Goldsworthy


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