Dr. Marie Trudeau is an Oboe and English Horn player in Trenton, New Jersey. She is a member of the Allentown Symphony, and is Principal Oboe with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra and Bay Atlantic Symphony. She is the Oboe Professor at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. As a member of the Atlantic Trio (comprised of oboe, bassoon, and piano) Marie enjoyed playing at the International Double Reed Conference in 2026. From 2018-2024 she spent her summers near the Finger Lakes at the Endless Mountain Music Festival where she was 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. She is a teacher who enjoys guiding the entire being of the student. Seeing the student from all perspectives wholly informs the approach that matches them best. Besides 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.