David Serkin Ludwig (born 1974, Bucks County, Pennsylvania) is an American composer, teacher, and Dean of Music at The Juilliard School. His uncle was pianist Peter Serkin, his grandfather was the pianist Rudolf Serkin, and his great-grandfather was the violinist Adolf Busch. He holds positions and residencies with nearly two dozen orchestras and music festivals in the US and abroad. His choral work, The New Colossus, was performed at the 2013 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.

Ludwig has held residencies with Meet the Composer, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, MacDowell and Yaddo, and the Marlboro Music School and has held residency and faculty positions at Yellowbarn, the Ravinia Festival Steans Young Artist Program, the Atlantic Music Festival, Curtis Institute Young Artist Program, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Lake George Music Festival, Mostly Modern Festival, Shanghai International Music Festival, and the Seoul National University Studio 20/21 Ensemble.

Ludwig has received commissions and performances from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as well as Jonathan Biss, Jeremy Denk, Jennifer Koh, Jaime Laredo, David Shifrin, eighth blackbird, the Dover Quartet and Borromeo String Quartet, and the PRISM Quartet.

In 2022 Ludwig was awarded the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the largest of its kind for chamber music. He received the 2018 Pew Center for the Arts and Heritage Fellowship, as well as the First Music Award, and is a two-time recipient of the Independence Foundation Fellowship, a Theodore Presser Foundation Career Grant, and awards from New MusicUSA, The American Composers Forum, the American Music Center, Detroit Chamber Winds, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Ludwig joined the composition faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music as of the 2010–2011 academic year, and was the Artistic Director of the Curtis 20/21 Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Dean of Artistic Programs. He has also composed for films such as Cymbeline. After twenty years on the faculty of the Curtis Institute culminating as Artistic Advisor to the President and Chair of Composition, Ludwig was appointed Dean and Director of Music at The Juilliard School in May 2021