Martha McGaughey spent many formative years in Europe where she studied both with Jordi Savall at the Schola Cantorum in Basel and with Wieland Kuijken in Brussels. While living in Paris she was a member of the Paris- based Five Centuries Ensemble, known for its performances of both early and contemporary music. She has performed with the Waverly Consort, Concert Royal, the Aulos Ensemble, and the New York Collegium. McGaughey collaborated with the British viol consort Phantasm in several concerts and a CD of the consort music of William Byrd. She is a founding member of the New York-based Empire Viols. She has also recorded for the Fonit Cetra and Erato labels and for EMI. McGaughey has taught at the Ecole Nationale de Musique in Angoulême (France), at the Eastman School of Music, and at Stanford University. Since 1986 she has been on the faculty at the Mannes College of Music in New York. She has twice been a Regents’ Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, and teaches regularly at Amherst Early Music and at other summer workshops including the Viola de Gamba Society of America’s Annual Conclave.