These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Anne-Marie McDermott.

Anne-Marie McDermott has played concertos, recitals, and chamber music throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. She continues her tenure as music and artistic director of the Bravo! Vail music festival, in Colorado, through 2026. 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.

A recording artist, McDermott is currently recording the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Carlos Miguel Prieto and Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería. Her other recordings include the complete piano sonatas of Prokofiev, solo works by Chopin, Bach’s English Suites and Partitas (Editor’s Choice, Gramophone Magazine), and Gershwin’s complete works for piano and orchestra with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (also Editor’s Choice, Gramophone Magazine).

McDermott continues to perform with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; the symphony orchestras of Dallas, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Atlanta, Columbus, and Baltimore; and the Seattle, Houston, Colorado, San Diego, and New Jersey symphonies. She has also toured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Moscow Virtuosi.

McDermott, who studied at the Manhattan School of Music, is a winner of the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women, the Young Concert Artists auditions, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She is the recipient of a 2024 Honorary Doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music. McDermott lives in New York City.