David Ludwig

David 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.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. Ludwig has held residencies with Meet the Composer, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the MacDowell and Yaddo artist colonies, and the Marlboro Music School. He was the composer-in-residence with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2009. His choral work, The New Colossus, was performed at the 2013 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama. Ludwig joined the composition faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music as of the 2010-2011 academic year, 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.