Alain Trudel is one of the world's foremost trombone soloists. His many prizes include First Prize of the Soloist Competition of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and of the Canadian International Stepping-Stone Competition, as well as the Mildred Dixon-Holmes Artist of the Year Award, the first time such awards had been made to a brass-player. As a soloist he has appeared throughout Europe, Canada and the United States, in Japan, Hong Kong and elsewhere, also making his mark as a conductor, with participation in the Hamamatsu Summer Academy, the International Trombone Festival and the Australian New Music Festival. A number of composers have written concertos for him, including Pascal Dusapin, Jacques Hétu, Peter Lieberson, Malcolm Forsyth and Alexina Louie, and his own compositions have been performed at major festivals throughout the world. At the same time he is an International Yamaha Performing Artist and has developed his own signature-model mouthpiece with Yamaha for world-wide distribution. Alain Trudel plays a Yamaha 682-G tenor trombone with a Yamaha Alain Trudel Signature mouthpiece.