Hailed for their `dazzling virtuosity and beautifully integrated ensemble´, the McDermott Trio has been recognized as one of the most exciting trios of their generation.  This season they perform on the East coast and Midwest of the United States including their OK Mozart Festival debut. Individually they perform in concerts throughout North America, Asia and Europe. Highlights of recent seasons include debuts at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y´s Kaufman Hall, at the Ravinia Festival and their first visit to Mexico as a trio with the Mostly Mozart Festival. The McDermott Trio´s radio and television credits include numerous appearances on the NBC and PBS Television Networks, CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Karault, New York´s WQXR, WNYC and National Public Radio´s Performance Today. In addition, they were featured musicians in the MGM motion picture `FAME´.

Violinist Kerry McDermott has been recognized as one of the most versatile and exciting artists of her generation.  A first violinist of the New York Philharmonic, Ms. McDermott joined as its youngest member and has since appeared as soloist with them throughout North America.  She has garnered prizes and awards in major competitions including the Montreal International Violin Competition and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow - where she also received a special award for "Best Artistic Interpretation".  At age seventeen, Ms. McDermott became the youngest winner in the history of Artists International Auditions.  She has performed on tour throughout Holland with Reizend Muziek, as well as North American tours with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Muir String Quartet. She has also appeared at Chamber Music Northwest, Bravo! Colorado, Caramour, Marlboro, Tanglewood, Wolftrap, Mostly Mozart, OK Mozart, Newport, Fredericksburg, Ravinia and on three continents with the New York Philharmonic Ensembles.  She has recorded for Cala, New World Records and Melodia, and her media appearances include a PBS/ABC/BBC Documentary and an AT&T commercial for National Network Television. Ms. McDermott is an alumna of the Manhattan School of Music and Yale College. 


Hailed by the press as "a musician of commitment and energy… with brilliance of technique and masterful interpretations", cellist, Maureen McDermott sustains an active career as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher.  A native of New York, she has performed in France, Taiwan, Brazil, Mexico, St. Bartholemy and throughout the U.S. and Canada. Concerts in the U.S. have included performances at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall’s "Great Performers Series", Bargemusic, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Van Cliburn Foundation in Texas. Ms. McDermott is co-director of the Lighthouse Chamber Players, a group that performs throughout Cape Cod every summer with such guests as Bernard Greenhouse and Robert White and was a founding member of the cello quartet "CELLO".  She has participated in numerous festivals including the Newport Music Festival, Bravo! Colorado, Mainly Mozart, Park City International Music Festival, Caramoor and Chautauqua. Media appearances include the movie "FAME", CBS Sunday Morning, the Fox Television Network, an AT&T commercial and in TIME and W magazines. She has recorded on the SONY Classical, Angel, d’Note classics, BMG and Pro Arte labels. Ms. McDermott has given master classes in São Paulo, Brazil and across the United States.


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. As an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, she was the curator and featured performer of a three concert Centennial Shostakovich Celebration. She recorded the complete sonatas and chamber works of Prokofiev 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. Ms. McDermott debuted with the New York Philharmonic in 1997 under Christian Thielemann and has since appeared with the orchestras of New Jersey, Houston, Minnesota, Dallas, Atlanta, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Seattle and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.  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.  A winner of the Young Concert Artists Auditions, Ms. McDermott was also the recipient of the Avery Fisher Career 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.