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 For Readers' Responses to Ludwig Tuman's writing, click here For Listeners' Responses to Ludwig Tuman's music, click here For selected Publications and Talks by Ludwig Tuman, click here For a Reponse from Dr. Daniel C. Jordan, click here For Reviews written about Fellow Artists by Ludwig Tuman, click here ____________________________ In addition to his work as a writer, Ludwig Tuman is by profession a composer, performing pianist, music educator and producer. As a composer, Ludwig has written for varied media, including orchestra, chorus, chamber, and solo. He is a long-standing member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers). He studied classical composition under Darius Milhaud in Aspen, Leon Kirschner at Harvard, and Roger Nixon in San Francisco. He also studied the piano under the internationally recognized artists Adolf Baller (who toured with violinist Yehudi Menuhin) and Istvan Nadas, himself a prized piano pupil of Bartok. His degrees in music composition are from Harvard (B.A. cum laude) and San Francisco State University (M.A.). Ludwig has been a faculty member of the Chicago Conservatory College, where he designed and taught courses in composition, theory, and non-Western music. One of his courses, surveying the extensive influence of the music of Africa on that of North and South America, featured a series of guest lecturers, including jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie.
Ludwig Tuman is one of a growing number of contemporary composers whose attraction to musical cultures of various continents and historical periods has led them to selectively blend, in their compositions, musical elements from a variety of origins. The presence of such elements in his works is sometimes overt, sometimes subtle. An example of the latter is Awakening, a short work for chamber orchestra that can be heard on the "Music" page of this web site.
Ludwig's works range widely in style, from renaissance choral pieces, to ragtime for four hands, to songs blending the classical Lieder with the harp and other folk instruments of South America. His works have been presented in venues in England, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Venezuela, as well as in several television and radio broadcasts. As a pianist, he has given numerous recitals and has performed as a soloist with orchestras.
He is also a music producer and has owned and managed a professional production facility, where he created and produced music for television. As a private teacher, he has worked with a wide range of students in composition, theory, and piano. Some of his students have gone on to produce their own albums. He is the author of a book, several published articles on the arts, and is an experienced choral director.
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