Later that year he assumed the post of director of production and program planning at CBC Radio in Toronto. He remained in that position through 1957, during which time he conducted for numerous radio and television broadcasts. He was particularly active as an opera conductor at the CBC. He also frequently conducted the CBC Symphony Orchestra from 1953-1964. From 1957-1959 he served as CBC's representative in Paris. Beaudet was the executive secretary of the Canadian Music Centre from 1959-1961, after which he worked for the last time at the CBC as the assistant vice-president in charge of programming from 1961-1964. He was appointed the first music director for the National Arts Centre in 1964, where he remained until his death a seven years later. He notably was responsible for assembling the National Arts Centre Orchestra at its founding. Death and legacy Having never retired, Beaudet died in Ottawa in 1971 at the age of 63. Later that year he was posthumously awarded the Canadian Music Council Medal and the University of Ottawa created a fund for aspiring conductors in his name. In 1988 the Canada Council founded the Jean-Marie Beaudet Award for young conductors. Bibliography Beaudet, Josée. Jean-Marie Beaudet, l'homme-orchestre: récit biographique et chronologie musicale. [Anjou, Québec]: Fides, 2014. 296 pages. References 1908 births 1971 deaths Conservatoire de Paris alumni Male conductors (music) Canadian music educators Canadian organists Male organists Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal faculty École de musique Vincent-d'Indy faculty People from Thetford Mines Université Laval faculty 20th-century Canadian conductors (music) 20th-century Canadian pianists 20th-century organists 20th-century Canadian male musicians