Martha Hill Duncan

Martha Hill Duncan was a member of the first graduating class of the Houston High School for Performing and Visual Arts and earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the University of Texas at Austin. She furthered her musical studies in Ithaca, NY with pianist Trudy Borden and in Toronto with composer Dr. Sam Dolin.

Specializing in piano, vocal and choral writing, Martha has won awards in The Diana Barnhart American Song Competition (2005), Ruth Watson Henderson Choral Composition Competition (2005) and The NATS Calgary 2009 Art Song Competition. In 2014, her youth opera, Searching the Painted Sky, with librettist Janet Windeler Ryan, was premiered at the National Opera Association Convention in New York City. In 2020, Martha was named as a finalist for the Louis Applebaum Award.

As artistic director of the women’s choir She Sings!, Martha has created many new treble choir works. Her ongoing collaborations with performers, poets and visual artists have led to many new works, including piano and vocal solos which appear in music educational syllabi and/or publications.
Martha is also a founding member of Red Leaf Pianoworks, an international self-publishing composers’ collective. She lives in Kingston, Ontario with her husband Martin and has two grown children and two granddaughters.

For more information please visit www.marthahillduncan.com.