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.
In October 2025, Mark Ludwig gave a Silenced Voices lecture at Tufts University on music composed in the Terezín concentration camp. In November, he directed Liberation, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camps with a program of WWIl Yiddish freedom and resistance songs, followed by the Symphony Hall premieres of works by composers who perished in the Holocaust by renowned pianist Beth Levin and soprano Lynda Bussbang. He also delivered a two-part lecture series, Trauma, Memory, and Transcendence in Music at Bristol Community College.
In February 2026, he organized and directed Lost Promise, an International Holocaust and Genocide commemoration with the Terezín Music Foundation Ensemble at Boston University. In April, he spoke to students at the Waldorf School on Messaging in Music, followed by another lecture in May with Holocaust survivor Hanni Meyer. He gave a Yom HaShoah lecture, The Gray Zone, at Tanglewood, followed by a Yom HaShoah commemoration, Remembrance and Creativity, with artist Jim Schantz and the Terezín Music Foundation Ensemble at Boston University.
In July, he was a guest speaker at the Tanglewood Learning Institute, organizing “Arts and the Rule of Law: Between the Notes: Shostakovich, Censorship, and Musical Survival,” a lecture with Lesley Rosenthal at the Linde Center, and “I am alive because of music”: Faith in Music, a lecture with performances by the Terezín Music Foundation Ensemble.
Mark Ludwig continues researching the archives and providing organizational support to the Swakopmund Genocide Museum and Windhoeck Riruako Centre for Genocide & Memory Studies in Namibia, and is in the early stages of developing “Our Will To Live,” a traveling exhibit focusing on the Terezín music critiques of composer and Holocaust victim Viktor Ullmann. This year, he returned to teach his popular course on Music and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center.