Martin Hebel

About Martin

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.

Hebel'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 U.S. 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, Hebel’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 New York City, and Filharmonie Brno in the Czech Republic.

Hebel received his D.M.A. in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 2021 and his M.M. 2018. He graduated with honors from the University of Connecticut in 2015 with degrees in composition and trumpet.

Listen and learn more by visiting his website.