Anne-Marie McDermott on Southern Arizona's PBS and NPR

On May 1, Anne-Marie McDermott, one of the most dazzling American pianists of her generation, will perform a program of music by Haydn and Brahms, with the audience joining her on stage at the University of Arizona’s Centennial Hall. Michael Dauphinais, from AZPM, Southern Arizona's PBS and NPR Station, recently talked with McDermott on the show Extempore about her program, the art of practicing, and being an arts administrator, among other things.

“I take the concept of ‘the greater the discipline, the greater the freedom’ really to heart,” McDermott said,

and I make my practicing as difficult as possible so that when I walk onstage, what I want to do in that moment is share what I'm so in love with: this music. That’s what I want to do. I don't want to be thinking about this passage or that passage; I just want to communicate the music. And the way to do that is through very disciplined practice.

Listen to the full radio segment here.

To find out more about the performance and get your tickets, click here.