Martha Baldwin is a native of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  Martha was appointed to the cello section of The Cleveland Orchestra by Christoph von Dohnanyi in 2001.  She received her Bachelor’s degree from Rice University as a student of Desmond Hoebig and her Master’s from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Stephen Geber. Martha has been a prize winner at a number of competitions including the Corpus Christi International competition, the Canadian Music Competition, the CIBC National Music Festival, and was the National Gold Medalist for Strings in the Royal Conservatory ARCT exams.  She has been broadcast in recital nationally on both NPR and CBC radio.  An active chamber musician, she frequently performs with fellow Cleveland Orchestra musicians across the United States.  Martha has appeared as soloist with orchestras in both the United States and Canada including the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Columbia Symphony, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, and the National Repertory Orchestra. Martha is on the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music and serves as Artist in Residence at the University of Akron.

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