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"Ms. McDermott brings to this repertory abundant technical gifts and evidently an incredible amount of stamina, but perhaps of equal importance, she brings a vivid personal connection, a deeply sympathetic ear....In the various slow movements, she often drew a dark liquid tone form her instrument, and the melodic lines , frequently enshrouded in a thick chromatic haze, spoke with a veiled and eery beauty."
Jeremy Eichler, reviewing Prokoviev Sonatas in Alice Tully Hall for The New York Times

"Attention is what Ms McDermott has to give. Extraordinary exuberance is the first impression, but then one notices the careful thought and has gone into every moment of Bach's music, Through the varied weight of her fingers and the judicious alternation of staccato and legato, we hear not just that there are inner voices but precisely where these voices begin and end, where the narrative is passed form one line to the next and how all of this intricacy serves one all-governing flow of music. Ms. McDermott's choices are wise but not dry. The unthinking is served by thought. Above all she listens....I doubt that most masters of scales, arpeggios and thundering octaves could bring us as close to this music as we were on Monday night."
Bernard Holland, reviewing all-Bach recital in Alice Tully Hall for The New York Times

"A pianist who balances qualities of excitement and spontaneity with clarity and elegance."

The New York Times

"“Anne-Marie McDermott plays with both technical virtuosity and evident joy. The music comes alive under her fingers.” -
St. Louis Post Dispatch 


“A pianist who balances qualities of excitement and spontaneity with clarity and elegance.”
The New York Times

“Anne-Marie McDermott plays with both techincal virtuosity and evident joy. The music comes alive under her fingers.”
St. Louis Post Dispatch

“One admired the elegance of Ms. McDermott’s playing: electric in its eagerness but always poised, never out of control...”
The New York Times

”McDermott’s heart has heft and translucence, structural certainty and seasoned humanity...”
BBC Music Magazine

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“We have waited a long time for an American pianist of this stature.”
Bryce Morrison reviewing the Complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas for Gramophone Magazine

"She's one of the great American pianists of her generation."
David Patrick Stearns. The Philadelphia Inquirer

“McDermott's heart has heft and translucence, structural certainty and seasoned humanity.”
Paul Riley, BBC Music Magazine

“Her playing is remarkably akin to Prokofiev's own. Hammered, biting staccatos and sharp accents give many movements a crisp profile without sounding as if she were banging the keyboard with a plank. But her lyrical playing is, if anything, even better. Like Prokofiev, she features subtle bits of rubato that help the melodies breathe. Yet she never slips into late Romantic swooning, coaxing, rather than forcing, the emotions out of the piece.” From “Prokofiev in Full,”
Heuwell Tircuit in San Francisco Classical Voice
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“Every time I hear McDermott in person or on recordings, I conclude anew that she's one of the great American pianists of her generation. Her depth of insight, precision of phrasing, and command of the piano on all leverls are ceselessly marvelous.”

David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer