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Mark Ludwig, founder and Executive Director of the Terezín Music Foundation (left), with Muslim-American Gold Star Parent Khizr Khan (center) and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh at the 2017 TMF Symphony Hall Gala concert. TMF honored Mr. Khan for his outspoken call for unity and tolerance in the U.S.
EVENTS

For more than three decades, Mr. Ludwig has produced programs uniting internationally celebrated musicians, classical and contemporary repertoire, historical journeys, poetry, and visual art for audiences in venues from major concert halls to synagogues and lecture halls around the world. Highlights include:
  • "Do Not Forget Me," a multi-media concert event telling the stories and presenting the music of five artists held in Terezín, premiered in Boston's Symphony Hall
  • music, theatre, and performance events for New York's 92nd Street Y and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Holocaust commemorations in concert halls and synagogues around the world,  the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C., Terezín, Belzec, and Babi Yar
  • concerts for the Prague Spring International Festival,  and the Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Aspen Music Festivals
  • stage productions and tour activities for the Czech Young Professionals Organization since 2006

​Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Simone Dinnerstein, and Garrick Ohlsson are just a few of the many artists who have collaborated with Mr. Ludwig to present music by composers  oppressed by the Nazis, works ranging across the repertoire, and the numerous pieces Mr. Ludwig has commissioned via the Terezín Music Foundation — by André Previn, Nico Muhly, Lubica Cekovská, Sivan Eldar, and other composers from around the globe.​ Richard Blanco, Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove, Fanny Howe, and Lloyd Schwartz are among the acclaimed poets who have collaborated with and composed poems for Mr. Ludwig's LiberArte project and associated events.  
​Mr. Ludwig produced a historic concert joining Yo-Yo Ma with survivor George Horner to perform cabaret music Mr. Horner had played in Terezín. It was covered by media outlets around the world.