Alain Trudel conducted the OSO Monday night. Bill Blackstone / Ottawa Citizen By Natasha Gauthier, Ottawa Citizen, January 20, 2015 Another Ottawa Symphony Orchestra 50th season concert, another contemporary violin concerto. By a Canadian composer this time, Montrealer Tim Brady, whose omnivore tastes span jazz and...
Madison Magazine, Aug. 19, 2014 By Greg Hettmansberger, I have a dear friend back in California who once said that if you do something two years in a row, you’ve started a tradition. It was a delightful thought to recall as I settled into my seat at...
After three successive, and successful, summer tours (two in Canada and one in India!) conducting the juno nominated National Youth Orchestra of Canada conductor Alain Trudel has decided to "try to take it easy" this summer...
By Richard Todd, published on July 5, 2014 Most people with more than a passing interest in the saxophone know that Glazunov wrote a concerto for the instrument. Most people with a knowledge of Vaughan Williams and his work know that he didn’t. That didn’t deter the famous...
Written by Brian Hay, Norules-nolights.com, Nov. 3, 2013 The seductively expressive playing that Concertmaster Joe Lanza did immediately after the heavily weighted opening bars of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade' set the tone for the second half of the show. In hindsight, it also reflected the tone of the...
Written by Renée Silberman, The Beat Magazine online, Dec. 2013 Alain Trudel was buoyant and beatific from Rossini to Dvořák, and at every musical moment in between during the course of Sunday’ Pops concert, Pops By Request. The audience for the Pops series can be credited...
Orchestra London's Classics and Beyond Series: Alain Trudel Conducting Written by Brian Hay, norules-nolights.com, Dec. 2013 "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion" sung by a tenor? What! No way! Well, actually, it worked. And extraordinarily well at that. Conductor Alain Trudel led the orchestra, The London Pro Musica...
Claude Gingras, La Presse, 7 août 2013 Le concert eut lieu (...
