Anne-Marie McDermott on Bach, Prokofiev, Glenn Gould, pulse, rubato, and Zen

Watch McDermott’s full 2-hour lesson on Bach’s A minor English Suite: https://app.tonebase.co/piano/courses...

0:00 Developing an addiction to Bach
0:54 The importance of pulse in Bach (and all music)
4:26 Finding freedom through discipline
6:50 Rubato in Bach
11:36 Embracing a variety of musical perspectives
13:46 Glenn Gould’s radical revelations
17:07 Studying with John Browning
19:08 McDermott’s rebellious youth
21:03 Zen and the Art of Piano Performance

What does Bach have to do with Prokofiev? In a word: clarity. For a maverick musician like Anne-Marie McDermott, both composers write music that "pops." And both benefit from a balance of discipline and freedom.

Join McDermott as she sits down with tonebase Head of Piano Ben Laude for an intimate conversation exploring the intersection of piano interpretation and the human experience. McDermott tells how she developed an addiction to Bach and Prokofiev as a teenager, one that persists to this day.

With these two composers as focal points, McDermott details her life's unusual path, with twists and turns through Jungian psychology and Eastern philosophy, and reveals how her musicianship evolved along the way.

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