CBC Radio Orchestra

The CBC Radio Orchestra until 2009, the Radio Orchestra of the public Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC / Radio -Canada. It was the only one in North America. Last chief conductor (since 2006) was Alain Trudel. Renowned guest conductors are Raffi Armenian, Kees Bakels, Michel Corboz, Victor Field Brill, Serge Garant, Monica Huggett, Milton Katims, Gary Kulesha, Sir Ernest MacMillan, Ettore Mazzoleni, Geoffrey Moull Harry Newstone, Yannick Nézet -Séguin, Jaap Schroeder, Georg Tintner Owen Underhill, Heinz Unger and Jon Washburn.

Until the early 1980s had separate CBC Orchestra in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg. But after drastic austerity measures of the federal government remained only the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, founded in 1938, which was raised to the rank of a national orchestra. To illustrate this status, it received its present name in 2000.

The orchestra was in 2008 austerity victim and was disbanded on 1 November 2008. Conductor Alain Trudel then founded, together with musicians from the CBC Radio Orchestra, the privately funded National Broadcast Orchestra of Canada.