Dr. Marie Trudeau is an Oboe and English Horn player in Trenton, New Jersey. She performs with the Allentown Symphony, New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Reading Symphony, Bay Atlantic Symphony, Kennett Symphony, and other ensembles in the tristate area. She is the Oboe Professor at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.  In 2018 she performed as principal oboe with the Philadelphia Festival Orchestra in China and has been invited to teach two festivals in Italy. She has also assisted in leading English Horn seminars in Carmel, California. She spends her summers at the Endless Mountain Music Festival in Corning, NY where she is Principal Oboe.

Since 2010, Marie has dabbled with historical performance in addition to modern oboe, which includes performances in Carnegie Hall on both the two keyed Baroque and the eight keyed Classical oboe. On modern oboe, she was part of a recording project of R&B, Motown, and Soul tune recordings for comedian Tracy Morgan.  She can be heard on the Grammy nominated Jazz album, “Pictures at an African Exhibition,” composed by Darryl Yokley, released in 2018. Other original music written for her to premiere includes the Nine Inch Nails inspired “Differential Moods” by Matthew Schoendorff and the beverage inspired “Happy Hour” by Phil Popham. 

Marie is a sought after oboe pedagogue. That is, she’s a teacher who also enjoys guiding the student as an entire being. Beside her own private studio, she has run clinics and sectionals for ensembles of Drew University, Rutgers University, Greater Princeton Youth Symphony, and New Jersey Youth Symphony.  Marie teaches oboe methods classes at Rowan University and previously also at Augustana University in South Dakota. Since 2018, she has also served as the Director of Music Education at the Lewis School and Clinic of Princeton. 

Marie earned a doctorate of musical arts from Rutgers University in 2016. Prior to that she attended the Cleveland Institute of Music for her master’s and Michigan State University for a bachelor’s degree in her home state. Marie’s dissertation “Prokofiev’s Trapéze: Walking the Tightrope between Composing and Culture,” which focuses on Prokofiev’s Quintet for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and double bass, can be found at both the libraries of Rutgers University and New York City’s Columbia University. Her main teachers have been Jonathan Blumenfeld, Robert Walters, Treva Womble, Betty Camus, Nancy King, and Jan Eberle.