Van Cliburn Concert: Anne-Marie McDermott

Prepare for the grand finale of the 2026 Van Cliburn Concert Series!  

Join us for a spectacular evening featuring one of the most dazzling pianists of our generation, internationally acclaimed Anne-Marie McDermott. Winner of the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women, McDermott has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia.  

This evening, enjoy an exquisite classical performance, marked by McDermott’s signature skilled interpretation style. With her broad repertoire of beloved classics and influential modern composers, as well as the flawless tones of the iconic Van Cliburn Piano, the evening promises a truly magical winter’s night.  

See you there! 

Tickets are $45 ($36/members, $10/students and teachers). Reserve your spot online or with Guest Experience at (479) 657-2335 today. 

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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 an insightful interpreter of the pinnacle of the repertoire — including Baroque and Classical masterpieces, 20th-century modernism, and music by the most influential composers of our time.   

McDermott has soloed with many leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the symphonies of Dallas, Seattle, Houston, Colorado, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Atlanta, San Diego, New Jersey, Columbus, and Baltimore.  

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.  

She continues her tenure as Music and Artistic Director of the Bravo! Vail Music Festival in Colorado through the 2026 season. She is the Artistic Director of the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Florida; 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. 

McDermott is currently recording the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Mexico City’s illustrious Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, under the direction of conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto. Her recordings also include the complete piano sonatas of Prokofiev, solo works by Chopin, Bach’s English Suites and Partitas, and Gershwin’s complete works for piano and orchestra with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.   

McDermott is a winner of the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women, the Young Concert Artists auditions, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She also received a 2024 Honorary Doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied.