Dr. Martha H. Fabrique

About Martha

Dr. Martha Fabrique is a professional flutist, ethnomusicologist, educator, and arts administrator. She is currently serving at the Interlochen Center for the Arts as the Assistant Director of Music and Operations.

Prior to Interlochen, she was a faculty member and administrator at San Antonio College, Our Lady of the Lake University, Trinity University in San Antonio, and Metropolitan State University in Denver. She served on the faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp as a flute and chamber music instructor for almost a decade.

For the past 20 years, she has performed with the Mid-Texas Symphony, Majestic Theater productions, the San Antonio Philharmonic, and has been a featured guest artist with local chamber ensembles. Additionally, she is an accomplished performer and scholar of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) and received her Shihan teaching license name "Reika" in 2018.

Fabrique earned her D.M.A in Flute Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1997. She received M.M. degrees in flute and ethnomusicology from Florida State University and her B.M. degree from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music. Her flute teachers include Sarah Fouse, William Hebert, Karen Yonovitz, Charles Delaney, and Geoffrey Gilbert. Her shakuhachi teachers include Kurahashi Yodo II, Stan Kakudo Richardson, and David Kansuke Wheeler.

I believe that the instructor must meet the student at the skill and musical level the student has currently attained. In a one-to-one private teaching modality, students can look forward to being shaped by their experience with faculty as mentors, coaches, technical instructors, and musical inspirations in a unique and wonderful way. Likewise, instructors can learn much from their students.