David Ludwig (composer)

David Serkin Ludwig (born 1974, Bucks County, Pennsylvania) is an American composer of classical music. His uncle is pianist Peter Serkin, his grandfather was the pianist Rudolf Serkin, and his great-grandfather was the violinist Adolf Busch.[1]

Composer David Ludwig

Ludwig has written music for many musicians and ensembles, including Jonathan Biss, André Watts, Jaime Laredo, eighth blackbird, Jennifer Koh, Dolce Suono Ensemble, Mimi Stillman, Network for New Music, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Ludwig has held residencies with Meet the Composer, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the MacDowell and Yaddo artist colonies, and the Marlboro Music School. His choral work, The New Colossus, was performed at the 2013 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.[1] Ludwig joined the composition faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music as of the 2010-2011 academic year,[2] and is 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.

Education

Ludwig attended Oberlin College for his undergraduate degree, originally intending to take a degree in art history, but eventually taking a music degree.[3] 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 2016, Ludwig won the A.I. du Pont Award for his "significant contribution to contemporary classical music"[4] and in 2018 received the 2018 Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship in the Arts.[5] Ludwig was a winner of the First Music Award, a two-time recipient of the Independence Foundation Fellowship,[6] 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.[7]

Compositions

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Orchestral
  • Les Adieux Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra (2020)
  • Bleeding Pines oratorio for chorus and orchestra (2020)
  • Pangæa (2017) concerto for piano and strings
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2015)
  • Saturn Bells (2014) for solo violin and orchestra
  • Pictures from the Floating World (2013) for solo bassoon and orchestra [9]
  • Virtuosity (2013), Five Micro-Concertos for String Orchestra
  • Seasons Lost (2012) for two solo violins and string orchestra
  • Fanfare for Sam (2011) [10]
  • La Follia (2011) for string orchestra
  • Symphony No. 1 "Book of Hours" (2009) for solo soprano and orchestra
  • Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (2008)
  • Hanukkah Cantata for vocal soloists, SATB chorus, brass, and strings
  • Concertino for solo violin and orchestra (2005)
  • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2004)
  • Radiance, serenade for oboe and strings (2003)
  • NightVision (2001)

Chamber
  • Seven Circles (2019) for violin and clarinet
  • Prima Variations (2019) for guitar and string trio
  • Nigunim (2019) for flute, violin, and piano
  • Paganiniana (2018) for solo violin, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion
  • Spiral Galaxy (2017) for violin, cello, and piano
  • Three Pictures from the Floating World (2017) for bassoon, violin, viola, and cello
  • Titania's Dream (2015) for piano trio
  • Rule of Three (2015) for two violins and viola
  • with the lilies and the song and the stars (2014) for Dizi (or alto flute), string quartet, and piano
  • Pale Blue Dot (2014) for string quartet
  • Aria Fantasy (2013) for piano quartet
  • Kantigas (2013) for Arabic violin, guitar, and Arabic percussion
  • Josquin Microludes (2012) for saxophone quartet
  • Piccola Musica Notturna (2011) for English horn, harp, string quartet
  • Three Yiddish Dances (2010) for piano trio
  • Sonata for Flute and Piano No. 2 "Canzoniere" (2010) for flute and piano
  • Flowers in the Desert (2009) for clarinet, viola, and piano
  • From the Rubayaat of Omar Khayyam (2008) for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
  • Aigaios (2007) for string quartet
  • A Modern Psalm (2007) for jazz trio: piano, bass, drum set
  • Lamentations (2006) for clarinet, harp, bass, and percussion
  • Divertimento (2006) for violin, viola, cello, bass, piano
  • Haiku Catharsis (2004) for Pierrot ensemble
  • Four Japanese Folk Songs (2003) for euphonium and string quartet
  • The Catherine Wheel (2002) for oboe quartet
  • April Variations (2002) for violin, guitar, and cello
  • Autumn Variations (2002) for violin, guitar, cello
  • Dances of Light (2000) for string trio
  • Poems from Antiquity (1998) for clarinet and string quartet

Vocal
  • Songs from the Spirit of Turpentine (2019) for baritone and piano
  • Songs from the Bleeding Pines (2016) for soprano and piano
  • O Clavis David (2015) for soprano and SATB choir
  • Still Life (2013) soprano and piano
  • Four Ladino Folk Songs (2012) for SATB choir
  • Our Long War (2011) for soprano, violin, and piano
  • Ewigkeit (2011) for baritone and chamber ensemble
  • From the Rubayaat of Omar Khayyam (2008) for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
  • Hannukah Cantata (2007) for SATB choir + soloists, cornetto, 3 sackbuts, organ, and baroque strings
  • Four Hanukkah Songs (2007) for SATB choir and piano
  • Kaddish (2006)
  • The Choir (2004) for SATB choir
  • Whitman Songs (2002) for baritone and piano
  • The New Colussus (2002) for SATB choir
  • Ave Maria (2000) for SSAA
  • Things to Do in a Park (2000) for children's choir & string quartet

Solo
  • All The Rage (2020) for solo violin
  • Moto Perpetuo (2016) for solo violin
  • Swan Song (2013) for violin and piano
  • Five Ladino Songs (2012) for violin
  • Lunaire Variations (2012) for piano
  • Five Bagatelles (2011) for piano [11]
  • Sonata for Flute and Piano No. 2 "Canzoniere" (2010)
  • Density 15.1 (2010) for solo tenor saxophone
  • Scenes from Childhood (2009) for cello and piano
  • Six Haikus (2008) for horn and piano
  • Dante Microludes (2008) for cello
  • Three Chansons (2007) for cello and piano
  • Pleiades (2005) for oboe and piano
  • Three Portraits of Isabella (2003) for solo piano
  • Sonata No. 1 for Flute and Piano (2002)

Large ensemble
  • The Anchoress (2018) for soprano, saxophone quartet, Renaissance winds, and percussion [12]
  • Missa Brevis (2008) for wind ensemble

References
  1. Samuel Hughes (March 2013). "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your President, Your Veep …". Pennsylvania Gazette. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
  2. "Curtis Announces New Faculty Appointments: Appointments to take effect with 2010-11 school year" (Press release). Curtis Institute of Music. 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
  3. Diana Burgwyn (July 2013). "Updating Tradition". Pennsylvania Gazette. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
  4. "A.I. duPont Composer's Award". Delaware Symphony. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  5. "David Ludwig – 2018 Pew Fellow". The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  6. "Fellowship Past Recipients". Independence Foundation. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  7. "VC 'Artist' Violinist Bella Hristova Weds Musical Partner". Retrieved December 23, 2018.
  8. "Works List". David Ludwig Music. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  9. David Patrick Stearns (2013-11-02). "Orchestra debuts 3 commissioned concertos". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
  10. Peter Dobrin (2011-10-25). "Curtis musicians bring the sound of renewal to Verizon". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
  11. Robert Zaller (2012-01-31). "A family affair at Curtis". Broad Street Review. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
  12. "The Anchoress". David Ludwig Music. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
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