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Culminating more than two decades of performing with some of the world's greatest orchestras, indie music icon Ben Folds performs his hits and new music with the National Symphony Orchestra in a live orchestral concert album conducted by Steven Reineke and recorded to soldout audiences over two nights at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the Fall of 2024. Widely regarded as one of the major music influences of our generation, the Emmy-nominated artist's enormous body of genre-bending sound includes pop anthems with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records. In 2015, his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra debuted at #1 on both the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts. His latest pop album was released in 2023 to rave reviews and sold-out performances, and was followed with the of his critically-acclaimed holiday album in 2024.

The first two volumes of Anne-Marie McDermott's Mozart piano concerto cycle with the Odense Symfoniorkester have received a superb critical reception. Volume 3 of the series hears the great American pianist in Mozart's final piano concerto, K. 595, paired with Mozart's sparkling, heartbreaking E-flat concerto, K. 449. The Odense Symfoniorkester is led by the German conductor, Sebastian Lang-Lessing. Among an elite group of virtuosi performing today, American pianist Anne-Marie McDermott has concertized throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Her rich recorded catalog includes the complete Prokofiev sonatas (BRIDGE 9298A/C), all of George Gershwin's piano music with orchestra (BRIDGE 9252) and a new series of Mozart piano concerto recordings with the Odense Symphony in Denmark (BRIDGE 9518, 9523). She is an Artist Member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and is the Artistic Director of the Bravo! Vail Music Festival and Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival and the McKnight Chamber Music Festival.

BrIdge Records launches Anne-Marie McDermott's Mozart Piano Concerto cycle with Vol. 1 of the series offering Concerto No. 6, K. 238, and Concerto No. 13, K. 415. The Odensesymfoniorkester (Denmark) is conducted by Scott Yoo. Of Ms. McDermott's extraordinary musicianship BBC Music Magazine recently wrote InchMcDermott's heart has heft and translucence, structural certainty and seasoned humanity.Inch In a career that has spanned over 25 years, American pianist Anne-Marie McDermott has played concertos, recitals and chamber music in hundreds of cities throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. The breadth of her repertoire matches that of her instrument, spanning from Bach, Haydn and Beethoven to Rachmaninoff, Prokoviev and Scriabin to works by today's most influential composers - Aaron Jay Kernis, Steven Hartke, Joan Tower and Charles Wuorinen, among them. As an Artistic Director, Ms. McDermott leads the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Florida and the Avila Chamber Music Celebration in Curacao.