A luminous, boldly emotive pianist who conveys great sensitivity and spirituality through her playing, Anne-Marie McDermott is widely celebrated for her performances on the world's most illustrious stages. A versatile musician, Ms. McDermott is at home with a wide range of repertoire, from Bach and Mozart to Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. As a solo recitalist, soloist with orchestra or as part of a chamber music ensemble, she conveys the message of the composer in deeply felt, spontaneous playing.

Ms. 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 also toured the United States with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Shostakovich's Concerto #1. Other 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, the Kennedy Center and San Francisco's Herbst Theatre and the Schubert Club. She has participated in such festivals as Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Aspen, Bravo Vail Valley, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Chamber Music Northwest, Newport, the Dubrovnik Festival in the former Yugoslavia, and the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico. Highlights of recent seasons include performances with the New Jersey Symphony, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and Dallas Symphony.

In her continued association with violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, they have appeared in recitals presented by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra as well as in New York, Urbana and Seattle. As an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, she was the curator and featured performer of a three concert Centennial Shostakovich Celebration. In recital, Ms. McDermott will be presenting Bach's Goldberg Variations, in conjunction with a planned recording of the work later in the season. Ms. McDermott performed this repertoire on the Great Performers at Lincoln Center Series.

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 also performed the cycle at the University of Arizona (including a master class, panel discussion and outreach event), at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, and at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall in May (complete sonatas). She recorded the complete cycle of sonatas and chamber works for Arabesque Recordings. Her critically praised all-Bach recording has been re-released on the NSS Music Label, which 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.

Ms. McDermott began playing the piano at age 5. By 12 she had performed the Mendelssohn Concerto in G minor with the National Orchestral Association at Carnegie Hall. She studied at the Manhattan School of Music as a scholarship student with Dalmo Carra, Constance Keene and John Browning, and participated in master classes with such highly respected artists as Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, Abbey Simon, Rosalyn Tureck, Michael Tilson Thomas and Mstislav Rostropovich.