Pianist, AnnaMaria Mottola, began playing the piano when she was 4 years old. After graduating in 2000 from Robert Service High School in Anchorage, Alaska, she attended Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. As a high school student she won the Alaska Music Teachers Association piano competition from 1996-1998. Upon graduating high school she was awarded a full scholarship to Arizona State University. At Arizona State she studied classical and jazz piano with Chuck Marohnic, Mike Crotty and Robert Hamilton. In 2000 she was the youngest performer to ever win the Arizona State Concerto Competition. In 2003, at the age of 20, she was urged to audition for the position as White House pianist. She flew to Washington, D.C. and went through two rounds of trials along with six other highly talented pianists from around the country. She played 30 minutes each of classical and jazz numbers from memory, showed her sight-reading ability, and performed with a string quartet, a jazz combo and a country-western band. At the end of the second round, the judges told her she had the position with the "President’s Own" US Marine Band.

As a featured soloist with the Marine Band, AnnaMaria has performed the Prokofiev Piano Concerto #3, Gershwin’s "Concerto in F" and "Rhapsody in Blue". Additionally, she has performed in a non-military capacity, at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., and other jazz venues in Maryland, and Virginia. Currently she is the Director of Music Ministries at Christ Crossman United Methodist Church in Falls Church, VA.