Visiting Faculty
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Mark Ludwig is a violist and Boston Symphony Orchestra member emeritus who blends his musical career with social causes, combining scholarship, teaching, and performance projects with community service throughout the United States and Europe.
Ludwig is the Executive Director of the Terezin Music Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and advancing awareness of the music created by victims of the Holocaust.
Known internationally as a leading scholar, teacher, and champion of Holocaust music, Ludwig performs this repertoire and teaches its history worldwide, lecturing at Harvard University, The University of Virginia, The Charles University in Prague, and many other schools. In 2005-06 he was Perlow lecturer and Sterne Virtuoso Artist in-Residence at Skidmore College, where his residency included a lecture series, master classes, solo and chamber music performances, and community outreach events in music and Holocaust studies.
This past fall, Mark Ludwig accepted a position at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University, where he is currently teaching a course on Music and the Holocaust.