{"id":75246,"date":"2022-05-10T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=75246"},"modified":"2022-05-10T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T00:22:20","slug":"scoop-alain-trudel-announced-interim-artistic-director-brott-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/05\/10\/scoop-alain-trudel-announced-interim-artistic-director-brott-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Alain Trudel Announced As Interim Artistic Director Of Brott Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75247\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Alain-Trudel-NEWS.jpg\" alt=\"Maestro Alain Trudel, image courtesy of the artist\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maestro Alain Trudel, image courtesy of the artist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Brott Music Festival has announced that conductor, composer and trombonist Alain Trudel will step in as Interim Artistic Director of the organization in the wake of the sudden loss of Maestro Boris Brott.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/04\/05\/breaking-canadian-classical-music-visionary-boris-brott-died\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brott\u2019s sudden passing<\/a> after a traffic accident in April left the classical music community, and in particular its tightly-knit Hamilton, Ontario cohort, in shock. It also left many questions about who would take the helm of the festival that Brott created in 1987 and led until his untimely death.<\/p>\n<p>Trudel, a Montreal native, was well known to Brott and his parents Alexander and Lotte. A talented trombonist as well as a conductor, he\u2019s performed with Brott\u2019s National Academy Orchestra and in the Brott Festival on prior occasions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am humbled to join Brott Music Festival and continue Boris\u2019 extraordinary contributions to music,\u201d said Trudel in a media release. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get to know Hamilton and to meeting the wonderful audiences that the Festival has built over three and a half decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know how much Brott Music Festival, the National Academy Orchestra and Brott Opera means to Canadian musicians, emerging opera singers and the cultural identity of this City,\u201d he added. \u201cI will strive to live up to their extraordinary reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Virtuoso trombonist, composer and conductor&#8230;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Maestro Alain Trudel has carved a notable career in the highly competitive world of classical music and beyond.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Music Director of the Toledo Symphony (USA);<\/li>\n<li>Music Director of l\u2019Orchestre Symphonique de Laval (QC);<\/li>\n<li>He has conducted with major orchestras in Canada, the UK, USA, Sweden, Brazil, Italy, Russia, Japan, Hong-Kong, Malaysia and Latin America;<\/li>\n<li>Nominated for an Emmy\u00ae in 2020 for his work with Toledo Ballet&#8217;s 79th Nutcracker;<\/li>\n<li>Six-time Juno nominee, received the Queen\u2019s Jubilee Medal in 2012 &amp; a knighthood by the province of Qu\u00e9bec, Chevalier de l\u2019Ordre in 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He is dedicated to working with the next generation of classical musicians, and has served as Principal Youth and Family Conductor with the National Arts Centre Orchestra.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Brott Music Festival<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>One of the major music events in Hamilton\u2019s arts calendar since 1987, this summer brings back live and in-theatre concert programming. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trudel makes his debut as Interim Artistic Director with Beethoven\u2019s Ninth on June 30 in a program dedicated to the memory of Boris Brott;<\/li>\n<li>Rossini&#8217;s opera <em>La Cenerentola<\/em> (Cinderella);<\/li>\n<li>The Festival ends with a fully staged production of Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein\u2019s <em>The Sound of Music<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>Among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets and more information is available <a href=\"https:\/\/brottmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brott Music Festival has announced that conductor, composer and trombonist Alain Trudel will step in as Interim Artistic Director of the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":75247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,76,19,875,6992,39,49,59],"tags":[7376,5244,36281],"yst_prominent_words":[8651,11623,36282,36259,21102,21098,6715,6807,7412,17463,17462,6616,6648,7410,30200,8641],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Alain-Trudel-NEWS.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-jzE","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75250,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75246\/revisions\/75250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75246"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=75246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}