Ludwig Orchestra
LUDWIG’s programming is as thoroughly thought out as it is adventurous. Artistic director Peppie Wiersma effortlessly brings together composers from different time periods, styles, and backgrounds. The musicians perform the greatest music to the highest possible standard but free from the organisational and management norms of conventional ensembles and orchestras. And distinctive it certainly is: the musicians often interact directly with their audience, play from memory, experiment with different forms of presentation and collaborate with makers in other disciplines in order to change the way people experience a concert, and have staged a number of legendary appearances with leading soloists.
Barbara Hannigan
LUDWIG maintains a close collaboration with the innovative conductor/singer Barbara Hannigan. In 2017, after an extensive tour of Europe, they recorded their first album ‘Crazy Girl Crazy’, which was awarded a Grammy in January 2018. In 2020 followed the second album ‘La Passione,’ winner of the Record Academy Award in the Contemporary Music category. In spring 2019 Barbara Hannigan and LUDWIG toured with nine different programmes, among which Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress, which was performed in venues including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Paris, Aldeburgh Festival (UK) and Ojai Festival (California).
Upcoming Projects
LUDWIG & Boys won’t be Boys
LUDWIG & Vincent van Amsterdam
Recent Projects
Bruckner Casco Festival
Daria and LUDWIG play BACH
Lucie Horsch, LUDWIG en het Nationaal Vrouwen Jeugdkoor
Daria van den Bercken and LUDWIG
Songs my mother taught me
Klarafestival
LUDWIG & Vincent
Ändere die Welt!
AWARDS, PRIZES & GRANTS
CD Crazy Girl Crazy
- 2018 Grammy Award: Best Classical Solo Vocal album
- 2018 Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral
- The New York Times: Best Classical Music Recordings 2017
- De Klara Award: Best International Classical CD
- Recording of the Month (December 2017), BBC Music Magazine
- Klara’s 10
- Presto Classical, Recording of the Year, finalist 2017
- fff Télérama
- Le choix de France Musique
- Editor’s Choice (October 2017), Diskotabel/NTR
- de Volkskrant: Best Recordings of 2017
Grant ‘The Art of Impact’
In July 2015, LUDWIG received a grant from the prestigious governmental funding program The Art of Impact, for it’s research project ‘LUDWIG and the Brain’, in which LUDWIG, in cooperation with leading scientists, develops innovative implementations for music that have a positive effect on the wellbeing and education of specific audiences.
‘De Ovatie 2014’ (Standing Ovation Award)
Award of the Dutch board of Theaters and Concerthalls for the most innovative concert of the year 2014.