Dr. Norman Ludwin is a leading scholar in the study of orchestration and film composition, and an instructor in the UCLA Film Scoring Program and at the Musicians Union Local 47 in Los Angeles. He has been a member of the Florida Orchestra and the Natal Philharmonic in Durban, South Africa.

His recent credits include: Incredibles 2, Coco, Jurassic World, Inside Out, Star Trek Into Darkness, Super-8, John Carter, and Priest.

Norman has worked as a double bass player on over 210 motion pictures, including work with Michael Giacchino, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Thomas Newman, Danny Elfman, Chris Young, Jeremy Lubbock, Charlie Haden, Barbara Streisand, Roger Kellaway, James Newton Howard, and David Foster (Norman's IMDB link).

Norman’s compositions and arrangements have been performed by a variety of groups worldwide, including recent performances by the Ho Chi Minh Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Colburn School Orchestra de Camera, the Peninsula Symphony, and the California State University at Long Beach. He has been awarded the ASCAP Composers Plus Award for the last four years.

Dr. Ludwin has written nine books on orchestration including “Orchestration, A New Approach-Volume One’ and “Volume Three- Film Music”.

He has presented seminars at the BMI Headquarters in Manhattan, The Society of Composers and Lyricists in New York, Screen Composers Guild of Canada, Dalhousie University in Halifax, University of Toronto, York University in Toronto, Humber College in Toronto, Northeastern University in Boston, University of Maryland, Howard University, Ron Jones’ Academy of Recording Arts, New York City Ravel Study Group, Seattle Composer’s Alliance, China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Beijing Normal University, Nanjing University of the Arts, Rangsit University in Bangkok Thailand, Ho Chi Minh Conservatory in Vietnam, and In Kaula Lumpur, Malysia.