Martha has been an active performer, 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 at the WSF 2008 in Sydney, Australia where she presented the lecture New Horizons: Women and the Japanese Shakuhachi." She served on the Executive Committee for the 2025 World Shakuhachi Festival as well. Before relocating to Michigan to work at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in 2023, 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. 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.