Elizabeth Anderson

“an exceptional programme and an exceptional artist” – in these words, German critic, Albrecht Schmidt described a recent performance by Elizabeth Anderson at the Pauluskirche in Darmstadt: “The multifaceted Elizabeth Anderson maintains a richly decorative flow … ascending to ever higher levels of excitement and with unbridled virtuosity arrives suddenly in a state of musical weightlessness” (Darmstädter Echo). Elizabeth has performed in many international festivals, including the Leeds International Festival, the City of London Festival, the Vendsyssel Festival (Denmark) and the Dublin Early Music Festival. In 2010 she gave the opening concert in the newly-restored Ribbeck Castle, near Berlin and has since performed Bach’s Goldberg Variations in the Sorø International Music Festival (Denmark) and for the Universität der Künste (Berlin University of the Arts). “All of us who witnessed her performance left with refreshed spirits, and the sense that far up above the arches of the church, God the Father himself had received the glory he deserved” (Hans Krarup, Dagbladet, Denmark). Elizabeth gives concerts in Europe every two years, either as a harpsichord soloist or in four-hands concerts with husband, Douglas Lawrence. Closer to home, she has appeared as a soloist in all of our capital cities. Festival appearances have included the Melbourne International Festival, Port Fairy Festival, the Castlemaine State Festival, Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields and the Adelaide Festival. She has played concertos with the Queensland Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Opera and Ballet Orchestra and appeared as a principal artist with the TSO, MSO and ACO. In Melbourne, she enjoys an involvement, either as a contralto soloist or playing basso continuo in the Bach Cantata series at St Johns’ Lutheran Church, Southbank. Wearing another hat, she sings with the Australian Chamber Choir and is the Manager of that organisation. She can be heard as a harpsichord soloist on 11 CDs on the Move and Naxos labels, of which her DeFalla Harpsichord Concerto (Naxos 8.554366) and her Goldberg Variations (Move MD3160) received awards. She completed a Master of Music at the University of Melbourne with Roger Heagney and John O’Donnell and later studied in Italy with Colin Tilney and Alan Curtis