Mark Ludwig

Mark Ludwig is a violist and Boston Symphony Orchestra member emeritus who blends his musical career with social causes promoting tolerance. He combines scholarship, teaching, and performance projects with community service throughout the United States and Europe. He is known internationally as a leading scholar, teacher, and champion of Holocaust music. Mr. Ludwig is Executive Director of Terezín Music Foundation, a Boston nonprofit he founded in 1991, which amplifies the voices of artists silenced in the Nazi Holocaust, through concerts, commissions, publications, films, recordings, and Holocaust and genocide education programs around the world. He has authored the nationally adopted teaching curriculum "Finding a Voice" and edited the poetry anthology "Liberation: New Works on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets." Through the Terezín Music Foundation, Mr. Ludwig produces an annual Boston Symphony Hall concert event featuring artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Garrick Ohlsson, Andris Nelsons, Simone Dinnerstein, and many others.

OUR WILL TO LIVE represents 30 years of Mr. Ludwig's research, scholarship, translation, and collaboration with rare archives and Terezín survivors. It offers a trove of rarely seen writings and artworks, plus vintage and new musical recordings, as well as Mr. Ludwig's essays about Terezín history and his rich annotations. It is the fullest account yet of the remarkable concerts prisoners produced in this Nazi camp where 30,000 people died—a tribute to the creative will and an indelible work of remembrance.

More at www.markludwig.org.