Irish violist Martha Campbell is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the MTU Cork School of Music, having studied with Garfield Jackson, Ashan Pillai and Simon Aspell. She also studied with Professor Frank Strauch at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar through the Erasmus exchange programme. She has been a prizewinner at a national level, and has performed in masterclasses with Bruno Giuranna, Nobuko Imai, Tatjana Masurenko, Nils Mönkemeyer and Hartmut Rohde.

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An experienced chamber musician, Martha has performed at many of Ireland's major venues and festivals, including the National Concert Hall Chamber Music Gathering, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Finding a Voice Festival, and Chamber Music on Valentia. She has enjoyed masterclasses with Hugh Maguire and the Belcea, Carducci, Danel and Emerson Quartets, and has taken part in the West Cork Chamber Music Festival Masterclass Programme and the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Academos project.  Martha is currently violist with the Calathea Quartet who are Britten-Pears Young Artists 2022/23. Upcoming highlights with the Calathea include performances at Snape Maltings, Blockley Chamber Music and West Cork Chamber Music Festival, as well as a New Zealand tour supported by Chamber Music New Zealand. Orchestral experiences include professional work with the Ulster Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra as well as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Mentoring Scheme 2019.

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Martha has a keen interest in historically informed performance practice,  and studied baroque viola with Annette Isserlis at the RAM. She was a 2020/21 Irish Baroque Orchestra Apprentice and has performed at the East Cork Early Music Festival and Sligo Baroque Festival. Martha regularly performs with the Irish Baroque Orchestra as well as UK based early music ensembles such as Armonico Consort and Florilegium. She plays a replica baroque viola by Jan Pawlikowski.

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As well as her professional career as a violist, Martha is a keen singer, and has been a choral scholar at St John’s Church Fulham and St Mary’s Church Battersea, and a Lay Vicar Choral at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral Cork. She has also been a member of several award winning choirs including Cork-based Madrigal 75, the Irish Youth Chamber Choir and the Chamber Choir of the HFM Franz Liszt, Weimar.  She has been soprano soloist for a wide variety of works from Handel’s Messiah to Sam Perkin’s Pause,  originally commissioned by Ortús Chamber Music Festival to commemorate the centenary of the Easter Rising.