A highly respected teaching artist, Martha Councell is as dedicated to teaching as she is to performing, having studied with some of the finest artist-teachers in the world, including Michel Debost and Leone Buyse. She has achieved a high level of artistry as a flute instructor, chamber music coach, and master class clinician.

 Previous college teaching engagements include Indiana University in South Bend, Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, and Northeast Community College in South Sioux City, Nebraska.

In 1996 and 1997, she was invited to participate as an artist-teacher with the Campamento Musical Juvenil in Panama City, Panama, where she taught master classes and individual lessons in Spanish. This experience began a significant relationship with the music and musicians of Central and South America; she has since been invited to teach master classes at the Conservatorio Nacional in Lima, Peru, and in Quito, Ecuador. She has held master classes throughout the United States, at Ohio University, University of Hartford (Hartt School), University of Wisconsin, Morningside College, University of South Dakota, and Dordt College.

In addition to college and international teaching, Dr. Councell teaches advanced high school and intermediate students at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp in Michigan, home to highly motivated young performers from all over the world. Recently, one of her private students won a top prize in the National Flute Association’s High School Artist Competition.

Currently, Dr. Councell teaches a full studio of exceptional flutists at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and lives in South Bend, Indiana.