Pianist Magazine Cover
June 2025
There comes a point in life for most of us when we say, enough. We say goodbye to responsibilities that had begun to feel more obligations, and we either seek new challenges, or find joy in what really motivates us, or both. For Anne-Marie McDermott, that point is now.
The challenge (and the joy) immediately in front of McDermott is Beethoven. She has, after all, been playing the concertos for the best part of 40 years. Now is the time to commit them to record: ‘a daunting but thrilling process,’ she tells me.