Alexandra Ludwig
We are delighted to welcome Alexandra Ludwig, our conductor for the 2009-2010 season.
Alexandra Ludwig maintains a varied musical career as a conductor, teacher and performer. Currently she is Assistant Professor of Music at Springfield College where she heads the Springfield College Singers and has recently worked as the conductor of the Pioneer Valley Symphony Chorus. As an orchestral conductor she has worked with the New York Youth Symphony, Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Catskill Chamber Players and has participated in several contemporary music projects conducting a number of premieres, including four pieces of her own.
As a choral conductor she has led the Ridgewood Singers, was an assistant for the Bard Music Festival’s Shostakovich and his World, assisted Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir in Poughkeepsie, New York and the Shrewsbury Chorale in New Jersey. Ms. Ludwig has also conducted performances of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Marc Blitzstein’s Regina as assistant conductor of the Bronx Opera Company.
She received her undergraduate degree from Smith College and earned her masters degree at Bard College where she later acted as a conducting teacher, both privately and for the school’s internationally-renowned Conductor’s Institute.