Martin Hebel

About Martin

Zemlinsky Prize winner and eight-time winner of The American Prize, composer Martin Hebel (b.1990) works at the intersection of music, advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration, responding to challenges of today’s global community with socially-conscious music to spark positive change. Hebel was inducted as Honored Artist of The American Prize in 2025.

Hebel’s Uplifting Unheard Voices project, an international initiative pursuing humanitarian advocacy through music, amplifies words of refugees he interviewed with a series of new compositions to motivate listeners to end conflicts refugees flee. With support from the Presser Foundation’s Graduate Music Award, he interviewed refugees fleeing conflicts in Africa, Ukraine, and the Middle East, facilitated by refugee agencies, community advocates, and guidance from the Vatican.

Hebel’s music has been performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as a winner of the American Composers Orchestra EarShot program, and by Columbus Symphony in Ohio, Riverside Symphony in NYC, Filharmonie Brno in the Czech Republic, and the Lincoln Trio, among others, at renowned venues across the U.S. and Europe including NYC’s DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Cincinnati Music Hall, and the Ohio Theater in Columbus, Ohio.

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, multimedia compositions, and collaborations with other artists.

Hebel earned his DMA and MM in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2015.

Learn more at martinhebel.com.