Marianne Trudel

About

The artist

Marianne Trudel is a pianist, composer, improviser, arranger, conductor, educator, record producer, and mixing engineer professionally based in Montréal, Quebec. Her artist-controlled biography documents an active career in solo, small-ensemble, and orchestral settings, ten albums of original work as a leader, and commissions for groups including Les Violons du Roy, the American Composers Orchestra, and the Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal. Her first leader recording, Espaces libres, dates to 2005. She currently teaches at McGill University's Schulich School of Music and the Cégep de Saint-Laurent. Her current calendar documents a dense 2026 schedule in Montréal and elsewhere in Quebec, including performances with Time Poem, the McGill Jazz Orchestra, and the Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal, plus a new orchestral commission scheduled for November 2026. MusicList reconciles seven exact principal-artist Spotify album containers across her main identity and the separate Marianne Trudel Quintette identity, spanning Live: Sands of Time in 2007 through three albums released in October 2023. The count excludes Le refuge because Spotify leads that container with the separate Trifolia project, while the broader artist-controlled discography remains documented as ten original albums led by Trudel. Representative releases include Dédé Java Espiritu, Time Poem: La joie de l'éphémère, À pas de loup, Portraits: Songs of Joni Mitchell, and Live: Sands of Time. Artist-controlled album credits identify Trudel as producer and co-mixing engineer on both Dédé Java Espiritu and Sands of Time, so MusicList includes her in the artist and producer-engineer directories without inferring any additional technical role. Her recent honours include the 2025 Prix Michel Donato, the Prix Opus for Composer of the Year presented in 2025, the Prix Opus for Jazz Album of the Year for Time Poem, and the 2023 CALQ Artist of the Year award in Laval. Public professional inquiries route through her artist-controlled contact form without republishing direct contact information. The profile image is rendered live from the exact Spotify identity with provider attribution and a monogram fallback.