About

Six-time American Prize winner and Featured Artist of the 2023 American Composers Orchestra Earshot program with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, composer Martin Hebel (b.1990) works at the intersection of music, advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He responds to challenges of today’s global community with socially-conscious compositions exploring the common ground of shared experiences—such as inequity and conflict—through music to spark positive change.

Martin’s Uplifting Unheard Voices project amplifies voices of refugees he interviewed by setting their words to music, 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 and community advocates with guidance from the Vatican.

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, and multimedia compositions involving video projection and electronics, as well as collaborations with other artists. He has collaborated with ensembles across the U.S. and Europe, including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Ohio, Columbus Symphony in Ohio, Riverside Symphony in NYC, and Filharmonie Brno in the Czech Republic.

Martin Hebel received 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 Music at Binghamton University, State University of New York, in Binghamton, NY, USA.

PRO Membership: ASCAP


Recent Awards

Winner:
EarShot: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra & American Composers Orchestra - Radiant Pillars
The Presser Foundation Graduate Music Award - Project: Uplifting Unheard Voices
The American Prize in Vocal Chamber Music Composition, 2nd place - Dulce et Decorum Est
The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award, 2nd place - Dulce et Decorum Est
The American Prize in Wind Ensemble Composition, 3rd place - Tides Within
The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Prize, 2nd place - Tides Within
The American Prize in Orchestral Composition, 2nd place - Symphony No.3
The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award, 3rd place - Symphony No.3

Honorable Mention:
The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award, Honorable Mention - Fanfare for Common Ground
The American Prize in Orchestral Composition, Honorable Mention - Impulse
The American Prize in Instrumental Chamber Music Composition, Honorable Mention - Ashfall

Finalist:
The American Prize in Vocal Chamber Music Composition, National Finalist - Beneath the Seams
The American Prize in Vocal Chamber Music Composition, National Finalist - Mother of Exiles
The American Prize in Wind Ensemble Composition, National Finalist - Fanfare for Common Ground
The American Prize in Orchestral Composition, National Finalist - Half Silver
The American Prize in Instrumental Chamber Music Composition, National Finalist - Unum
The American Prize in Instrumental Chamber Music Composition, National Finalist - Rust and Bone
ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, National Finalist - Symphony No.3

Semi-Finalist:
The American Prize in Instrumental Chamber Music Composition, National Semi-Finalist - Window Inward
The American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award, National Semi-Finalist - Ashfall