Anne-Marie McDermott

One of the most dazzling American pianists of her generation, Anne-Marie McDermott has
played concertos, recitals, and chamber music in hundreds of cities throughout the United
States, Europe, and Asia. She is one of the most versatile, respected, and best-reviewed pianists
of our time. McDermott continues her tenure as music and artistic director of the Bravo! Vail
Music Festival, in Colorado, through 2026, which hosts world-renowned artists and orchestras.
She is also the artistic director of the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival, in Florida; the artistic
director of the McKnight Center’s Chamber Music Festival, at Oklahoma State University; and a
former curator of the Mainly Mozart Spotlight Series, in San Diego.

Highlights of McDermott’s 2025-26 season include a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
tour of the United States, including Alice Tully Hall; Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, performing
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 4, with music director Otto Tausk; a performance
with violinist Richard Lin at Rose Studio, with music by Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, and Paul
Schoenfield; a tour of Spain and Portugal; Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima, Peru; Saint Paul
Chamber Orchestra; and North Carolina Symphony, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.
5, “Emperor,” with music director Carlos Miguel Prieto.

Last season McDermott performed Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto with the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra and with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MA); performed Beethoven’s Piano
Concerto No. 4 with the Paducah Symphony Orchestra (KY); Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1
with the Des Moines Symphony and Palm Beach Symphony; with the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall in New York City, and on tour in Chicago, Grand Rapids, Kansas
City, Ashland (OR), and Vienna (VA). She also appeared in a special chamber music program at
the New World Symphony, in Miami Beach, that included Messiaen’s wartime masterwork
Quartet for the End of Time; performed as a member of the SPA Trio — with soprano Susanna
Phillips and violist Paul Neubauer — at the Rockefeller University, and at Arizona Friends of
Chamber Music; and in a chamber music program at the McKnight Center for the Performing
Arts, in Stillwater (OK).

In previous seasons McDermott has performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the St. Paul
Chamber Orchestra, both resulting in immediate re-engagements. She also performed Mozart with the
New York Philharmonic at the McKnight Center in Stillwater. Other international highlights include
recitals in France at the famed Piano aux Jacobins, in Toulouse; performances with the São Paulo
Symphony Orchestra at the Cartagena International Music Festival; and an all-Haydn recital tour of
China