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 illustrious stages—in recital, as a soloist with orchestra or as part of a chamber music ensemble. Highlights of recent seasons include performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Houston Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony and Dallas Symphony, among others. Ms. McDermott continues her highly acclaimed collaboration with violinist Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg, in both recital and on recordings. As an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ms. McDermott was the curator and featured performer of a three concert Centennial Shostakovich Celebration. In recital, Ms. McDermott has been presenting Bach's Goldberg Variations, in conjunction with a planned recording of the work later in the season. She has premiered numerous new American works and will be presenting the world premiere of Charles Wourinen's Fourth Piano Sonata. 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, the University of Arizona, Chamber Music Northwest and at UCLA. She has recordings on Arabesque Records, NSS and GMN labels, and Bridge Records will release Ms. McDermott's latest CD of the complete works of George Gershwin for Piano and Orchestra, with the Dallas Symphony. Recital engagements have included New York’s 92nd Street Y, Town Hall and Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre and she regularly performs at the leading summer festivals. Ms. McDermott is the recipient of numerous awards. Anne-Marie began playing the piano at age 5 and by 12 she had performed the Mendelssohn Concerto in G minor at Carnegie Hall. She studied at the Manhattan School of Music as a scholarship student with Dalmo Carra, Constance Keene and John Browning. Ms. McDermott was recently appointed as a Piano Professor at NYU's Piano Studies department.