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VIDEO: Alain Trudel, TSO's New Conductor

Alain Trudel is the Musical Director for the Toledo Symphony.  He is also Music Director of l’Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Principal Youth and Family Conductor of the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra.  Trudel was also the CBC Radio Orchestra conductor, taking the orchestra to new heights of artistic quality, as well as public and critical acclaim.

Trudel's official debut with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra will be September 21 & 22 at the Toledo Museum Of Art Peristyle Theater.

The Toledo Symphony Orchestra welcomes new Music Director Alain Trudel to Toledo for its first ProMedica Masterworks series concert for a community celebration featuring local composer Christopher Dietz from Bowling Green State University and dancers from Toledo Ballet. Two performances of Trudel’s Debut will take place Friday, September 21 and Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 8 PM at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Peristyle Theater.

“This weekend kicks off our 75th Birthday celebration. It was September 1943 when what is now the Toledo Symphony gave its inaugural performance,” said Zak Vassar, President & CEO of the Toledo Symphony. “We will spend a lot of this season looking back over the past 75 years and where the orchestra has been in our community. With Alain’s arrival, this season represents a great moment of artistic change for our organization, but it also represents a great opportunity to raise a glass to where we’ve been and how far we’ve come.”

“I am so excited for our season opener and my official debut as Toledo Symphony Music Director. I’m looking forward to bringing some of my new ideas to the table in the 2018-2019 season. Each concert will feature music you know and love and something new for audiences to discover. We hope you can join us to experience the power of live music,” said Alain Trudel, Music Director of the Toledo Symphony.

The programs on Friday and Saturday evening open with one of the most recognizable themes in all of music from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The opening four-note motif has been featured in movies, television commercials, and popular culture for decades, such as The Breakfast Club (1985), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and The Peanuts Movie (2015).Then, the TSO will perform Caldera, a piece written by Christopher Dietz, Associate Professor of Composition at Bowling Green State University. The grand finale includes dancers from Toledo Ballet performing selections from Tchaikovsky’s famous Swan Lake.

“The Toledo Ballet and Toledo Symphony Orchestra have collaborated for more than 60 years, and we are thrilled to welcome Alain Trudel as the new conductor,” said Lisa Mayer-Lang, Artistic Director for the Toledo Ballet. “We look forward to working with Alain and the TSO once again, for his debut in Toledo and for many years to come"

Trudel’s Debut will take place Friday, September 21 and Saturday, September 22 at 8 PM at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Peristyle Theater. Tickets are available at toledosymphony.com or by calling the Toledo Symphony Box Office at 419.246.8000.

The Toledo Symphony Orchestra is a community-supported organization of professional musicians and teachers who deliver quality performance and music education for all.

Formed in 1943 as The Friends of Music and incorporated in 1951 as the Toledo Orchestra Association, Inc., the Toledo Symphony Orchestra (TSO) has grown from a core group of twenty-two part-time musicians to a regional orchestra that employs sixty-five professional musicians who consider the Toledo Symphony their primary employer, as well as numerous extra players annually as repertoire demands. This year, the Toledo Symphony celebrates its 75th Anniversary season.

The Toledo Symphony reaches more than 260,000 individuals annually through performances and education programs. The series concerts (Masterworks, Pops, Chamber, Mozart in the Afternoon, and Family Series) are the critical underpinning of the orchestra’s artistic mission and regularly draw people from 135 postal zip codes. Additionally, Music Under the Stars, a free summer band concert series, is held annually at the Toledo Zoo. Education programs, student performances, and community concerts are held in schools, neighborhood churches, performing arts centers, and community facilities throughout the region; many are offered at no charge or provided at a reduced fee to help expand participation.

Coming Up This Year with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra:

9/29 - West Side Story: Film with Live Orchestra

10/20 - Colors, this breathtaking program brings together three Russian masters of music, including the flaming colors and soaring melodies of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances. Artist Holly Carr joins the TSO on stage and creates a panoramic silk painting during a live performance of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. You don't want to miss this exhilarating program that includes the world premiere of Samuel Adler's haunting Tuba Concerto, performed by TSO's own David Saltzman.

10/27 - Mozart's Jupiter! at the Valentine Theater

11/16 & 17 - A Hero's Life: Members of the Toledo Symphony Youth Orchestras perform side-by-side with their professional TSO counterparts in an epic orchestra to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. We pay tribute to the courageous men and women who served this great country and the world with John Williams' Born on the Fourth of July, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Symbolon—first performed in the Soviet Union in 1988—and Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, "A Hero's Life."

12/1 - Christmas at the Peristyle

1/11 & 12 - Nordic Air: Back by popular demand from the pivotal program that brought together Alain Trudel and the TSO, Grammy-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich returns to the Peristyle stage and reunites with our new Music Director in this program inspired by the icy landscape of Northern Europe.

1/13 - Wazdastyle! - This inventive program explores different musical styles—from rock and soul to classical and techno—in a fun and interactive "Wheel of Fortune" type of game. Audiences will learn about instruments, rhythm, and some of the most famous themes ever written.


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