Biography 

Martha Councell is an energetic and inventive solo and chamber musician, having performed in Europe, Central and South America, and across the United States. She is a top prizewinner in several national competitions, including the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition (2000), Frank Bowen Flute Competition (Albuquerque, 1996), and the Flute Talk Competition (Chicago, 1996). She has performed internationally as part of the Festival Internacional de Flautistas in Lima, Peru, the Asociación Nacional de Conciertos in Panamá City, Panamá, in Paris France, where she was invited to perform at the Jean Pierre Rampal International Concours de Flûte in 2005, and Uelzen, Germany, where she was the only American to participate in the International Friedrich Kuhlau flute competition (2007), and was honored as a semi-finalist. In the summer of 2007 she toured the United Kingdom, with performances in London and Dublin. Ms. Councell earned degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory, where she studied with Michel Debost, and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she studied with Leone Buyse. Ms. Councell is in her first year as adjunct faculty at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.