Piano Faculty: Anne-Marie McDermott

Anne-Marie McDermott debuted with the New York Philharmonic in 1997 under Christian Thielemann and has since appeared with the orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Seattle. She has toured the United States with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (performing Shostakovich's Concerto No. 1), and notable engagements include the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Brandenburg Ensemble at the Kennedy Center, the Moscow Virtuosi with Vladimir Spivakov at Boston's Symphony Hall and New York's Avery Fisher Hall, and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. Recital engagements have included New York's 92nd Street Y, Town Hall and Alice Tully Hall, and the Kennedy Center. As a collaborative artist, she has been an Artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1995, and she tours widely as the collaborative partner of violinist Nadia Salerno-Sonneberg.

A passionate champion of the music of Prokofiev, Anne-Marie McDermott performed the complete cycle of sonatas to great acclaim at the Lincoln Center Festival in July 2003. She recorded the complete cycle of sonatas and chamber works for Arabesque Recordings. In 2001, her critically praised all-Bach recording on the GMN label was chosen as Grammophone Magazine's Editor's Choice.

A winner of the Young Concert Artists Auditions, Ms. McDermott was also the recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Development Award, the Andrew Wolf Memorial Chamber Music Award, the Joseph Kalichstein Piano Prize, the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize, the Bruce Hungerford Memorial Prize, and the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women Artists.

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