David Ludwig (composer)

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Composer David Ludwig

David Serkin Ludwig (born 1974, Bucks County, Pennsylvania) is an American composer, teacher, and Dean of Music at The Juilliard School. His uncle was pianist Peter Serkin, his grandfather was the pianist Rudolf Serkin, and his great-grandfather was the violinist Adolf Busch. [1] He holds positions and residencies with nearly two dozen orchestras and music festivals in the US and abroad. His choral work, The New Colossus, was performed at the 2013 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama. [1]

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Ludwig has held residencies with Meet the Composer, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, MacDowell and Yaddo, and the Marlboro Music School and has held residency and faculty positions at Yellowbarn, the Ravinia Festival Steans Young Artist Program, the Atlantic Music Festival, Curtis Institute Young Artist Program, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Lake George Music Festival, Mostly Modern Festival, Shanghai International Music Festival, and the Seoul National University Studio 20/21 Ensemble.

Ludwig has received commissions and performances from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as well as Jonathan Biss, Jeremy Denk, Jennifer Koh, Jaime Laredo, David Shifrin, eighth blackbird, the Dover Quartet and Borromeo String Quartet, and the PRISM Quartet.

In 2022 Ludwig was awarded the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the largest of its kind for chamber music. He received the 2018 Pew Center for the Arts and Heritage Fellowship, as well as the First Music Award, and is a two-time recipient of the Independence Foundation Fellowship, a Theodore Presser Foundation Career Grant, and awards from New MusicUSA, The American Composers Forum, the American Music Center, Detroit Chamber Winds, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Ludwig joined the composition faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music as of the 2010–2011 academic year, [2] and was the Artistic Director of the Curtis 20/21 Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Dean of Artistic Programs. He has also composed for films such as Cymbeline . After twenty years on the faculty of the Curtis Institute culminating as Artistic Advisor to the President and Chair of Composition, Ludwig was appointed Dean and Director of Music at The Juilliard School in May 2021 [3]

Education

Ludwig attended Oberlin College for his undergraduate degree, originally intending to take a degree in art history, but eventually taking a music degree. [4] His teachers included Richard Hoffmann. He spent one year studying at the University of Vienna. After that, he received his M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music. He completed additional post-graduate work at the Curtis Institute of Music with Richard Danielpour, Jennifer Higdon, and Ned Rorem, and at the Juilliard School with John Corigliano. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the George Crumb Fellow, with his "Sonata for Violin and Piano" as his dissertation.

Awards

In 2023 Ludwig was given the award in music by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2022, he was awarded the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Stoeger Prize for outstanding contributions to Chamber Music. [5] In 2016, Ludwig won the A.I. du Pont Award for his "significant contribution to contemporary classical music" [6] and in 2018 received the 2018 Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship in the Arts. [7] Ludwig was a winner of the First Music Award, a two-time recipient of the Independence Foundation Fellowship, [8] a Theodore Presser Foundation Career Grant, and awards from New Music USA, the American Composers Forum, the American Music Center, Detroit Chamber Winds, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Choral Arts Philadelphia honored Ludwig as a City Cultural Leader in 2009.

Personal life

Ludwig is married to violinist Bella Hristova. [9]

Compositions

Source: [10]

Orchestral

Chamber

Vocal

Solo

Large ensemble

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  2. ↑ "Curtis Announces New Faculty Appointments: Appointments to take effect with 2010–11 school year" (Press release). Curtis Institute of Music. 2010. Archived from the original on July 6, 2010. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
  3. ↑ Juilliard Alumni (May 2021). "Alum Named as Dean of Music". Juilliard Alumni Journal. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  4. ↑ Diana Burgwyn (July 2013). "Updating Tradition". Pennsylvania Gazette. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Composer David Serkin Ludwig Receives Elise L. Stoeger Prize". The Violin Channel. February 28, 2022. Retrieved June 3, 2022.
  6. ↑ "A.I. duPont Composer's Award". Delaware Symphony. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
  7. ↑ "David Ludwig – 2018 Pew Fellow". The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. 2018. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Fellowship Past Recipients". Independence Foundation. Archived from the original on January 4, 2020. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
  9. ↑ "VC 'Artist' Violinist Bella Hristova Weds Musical Partner". August 5, 2015. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Works List". David Ludwig Music. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  11. ↑ David Patrick Stearns (November 2, 2013). "Orchestra debuts 3 commissioned concertos". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  12. ↑ Peter Dobrin (October 25, 2011). "Curtis musicians bring the sound of renewal to Verizon". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  13. ↑ Robert Zaller (January 31, 2012). "A family affair at Curtis". Broad Street Review. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  14. ↑ "The Anchoress". David Ludwig Music. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
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