ARTIST PROFILE:
Anne-Marie McDermott

Anne-Marie McDermott has performed with dozens of major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Moscow Virtuosi, and the Taipei and Vancouver Symphonies. She has collaborated with leading conductors such as James Gaffigan, Alan Gilbert, Jaap van Zweden, and the late Bramwell Tovey. Ms. McDermott is devoted to chamber music and performs regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (a member since 1995) and is the Artistic Director of two chamber music festivals: one at the McKnight Performing Arts Center in Oklahoma; the other in Ocean Reef.

Ms. McDermott enjoys nurturing and promoting young artists and new works. She has commissioned and premiered dozens of works by living composers, including last January’s original film score by Stephen Prutsman and last summer’s new concerto by Chris Rogerson, commissioned for her by Bravo! Vail in honor of her 10^th anniversary as that festival’s Artistic Director. She participates both as a juror and performer in festivals such as Piano Jacobins in Toulouse, where she will make a return visit in fall 2023. This summer she will present all nine of Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas together with pianists Anna Geniushene and Ilya Shmukler, whom she discovered while serving as a jurist for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Her discography includes Bach’s English Suites and Partitas (named Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice) and Gershwin’s Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (Dallas Symphony) among others. She is currently recording the complete Mozart Concertos and all of Haydn’s Piano Sonatas. Future recording plans include all of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos with conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto.