Martha has been a performer, licensed teacher and scholar of the Japanese shakuhachi (bamboo flute) for over 30 years. She gave performances and workshops at the World Shakuhachi Festival 2025 in Texas, and served on the Executive Committee as well. At the WSF 2008 in Sydney, Australia, she presented the lecture New Horizons: Women and the Japanese Shakuhachi." While based in Texas, she was featured locally as a soloist in performances at the San Antonio Museum of Art, for the Japan America Society of San Antonio, the East Asia Institute at UTSA, at universities and in solo recitals. Martha currently is based in northern Michigan. Her doctoral thesis is titled Crosswinds: Interpreting Flute Literature Influenced by the Japanese Shakuhachi and she has lectured on this subject at the National Flute Convention, and the International Conference of the College Music Society in Kyoto, Japan. Her teachers include grand masters Yodo Kurahashi II (Kyoto, Japan), Stan Kakudo Richardson (Dallas, Texas), David Kansuke Wheeler (Boulder, Colo.) and Dr. Dale Olsen. Martha received her teaching license and the name Reika from Yodo Kurahashi II in 2018.