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, Leone Buyse, and Nadine Asin.  She  has achieved a high level of artistry as a flute instructor, chamber music coach, and master class clinician.

 In 1996 and 1997, Ms. Councell was invited to participate as an artist-teacher with Oberlin Conservatory's Panama Project. She taught master classes and individual lessons in Spanish as part of the Campamento Musical Juvenil in Panama City, Panama.  Ms. Councell maintained faculty positions at community music schools in the Chicago area, including the Music Institute of Chicago (Wilmette), Zion Conservatory of Music (Zion), and the Jack Benny Center for the Arts (Waukegan). In 2004 and 2006 she taught at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater’s Summer Flute Institute, where she coached flute ensembles, taught individual lessons, taught master classes in piccolo and orchestral excerpts, and gave a seminar on performance anxiety.

 Ms. Councell has held master classes at Ohio University, University of Hartford (Hartt School), University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Morningside College, University of South Dakota, and Dordt College. She offered Spanish language master classes at the Campamento Musical Juvenil in Panama City, Panama, and at the Conservatorio Nacional in Lima, Peru. 

 In addition to her applied teaching, she taught Music Appreciation in the classroom at Northeast Community College in South Sioux City, Nebraska. Also in the area, she coached chamber ensembles of the Sioux City Youth Orchestra, and maintained positions as an instructor at Sioux City community music schools, including the Lamb School of Theater, Music, and Art, and the Leo Kucinsky Academy of Music. She was adjunct faculty at Morningside College from 2003-2007.

Ms. Councell maintained private flute studios in Houston and Odessa, Texas (1998-2000 and 2002-2003), Chicago, Illinois (2000-2002), Sioux City, Iowa (2003-2007), Omaha, Nebraska (2005-2006) and Iowa City, Iowa (2006-present).  Her students have had success as prizewinners in the Iowa Flute Festival Flute Wonders Competition as well as the Iowa All- State auditions in 2006 and 2007.

 Currently, Ms. Councell is Adjunct Instructor of Flute at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.