About

Six-time American Prize winner Martin Hebel (b.1990) works at the intersection of music, advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He composes socially-conscious music responding to today’s global challenges to inspire conversation and spark positive change.

Martin’s Uplifting Unheard Voices project, an international initiative pursuing humanitarian advocacy through music, amplifies words of refugees he interviewed with a series of new compositions, seeking to motivate listeners to end conflicts refugees flee. With support from the Presser Foundation’s Graduate Music Award, he interviewed refugees in Rome and the US fleeing conflicts in Africa, Ukraine, and the Middle East, facilitated by refugee agencies, community advocates, and guidance from the Vatican.

As a 2023 winner of the American Composers Orchestra EarShot program, Martin collaborated with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to premiere his work. His music has been performed across the U.S. and Europe, including by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Columbus Symphony in Ohio, Riverside Symphony in NYC, and Filharmonie Brno in the Czech Republic at renowned venues including NYC’s DiMenna Center and Cincinnati Music Hall.

With discography published by Ablaze Records, Centaur Records, and the USAF Band of the Golden West, Martin’s portfolio includes orchestral and wind ensemble works, instrumental and vocal chamber music, choral music, multimedia compositions, and collaborations with other artists.

Martin Hebel earned his DMA in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2021 and his MM 2018. He graduated with honors from the University of Connecticut in 2015 with degrees in composition and trumpet.

Martin Hebel currently serves as Lecturer of Composition and Music Theory at the University of North Alabama in Florence, AL, USA. During the summer, Martin serves as Instructor of Music Theory in the Summer Arts Camp at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, MI, USA.

PRO Membership: ASCAP