Wai Mizutani, a master violinist and instructor of music at Flathead Valley Community College, will perform at an event hosted by the Kalispell Education Foundation.

An Evening of Fine Arts takes place Feb. 25 at the college’s Arts and Technology Building.

Mizutani joins talented student artists and performers from Kalispell Middle School and Flathead and Glacier high schools. This year’s event also features dancers from Feat X Feet Youth Tap Ensemble.

Proceeds from the event support innovative projects for teachers in Kalispell schools.

“The variety of artists at this event is truly amazing, and you won’t want to miss it”, said Anna Marie Bailey, chairwoman of the Kalispell Education Foundation.  “We are grateful that Wai will share the stage with our talented students in music, speech and debate, theater and the visual arts.”

Mizutani graduated from the Juilliard School of Music and is a former teacher at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in New York. His career has also included orchestral performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and soloist for various orchestras across the globe, including the West Coast Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Sinfonietta in Taiwan, Puccini Sinfonietta in Italy, Moscow Chamber Orchestra and Manhattan Symphony Orchestra.

Mizutani has been recognized for his noted performances in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, as well as for securing top honors for the Taiwan International Competition and Five Towns Violin Competition. Throughout his career, he has performed with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Arnold Steinhardt, Glenn Dicterow, Kurt Masur and Zubin Mehta.

He currently teaches a string ensemble class at FVCC.

Tickets for An Evening of Fine Arts are $40 each and may be purchased at the Hockaday Museum of Art and Flathead and Glacier high schools main offices, or by calling Mike Kofford at the Kalispell Education Foundation office at 751-3432.

Tickets are also available online at www.kalispelleducationfoundation.org.