Meg Okura will host a free Master’s Class in the Mott Memorial Building Auditorium, Room 1130 at Mott Community College’s main campus in Flint from 4-5:30 on Thursday October 17. The class is open to anyone, no registration necessary.

All About Jazz Magazine called Meg, “the queen of chamber jazz.” She is a Grammy nominated violinist and composer who blends East and West in modern jazz. Her Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble based in New York has been featured at venues from Lincoln Center to the Levitt Pavilion in Los Angeles.

Okura has appeared on dozens of recordings with artists from David Bowie, Lee Konitz and Diane Reeves to Ziggy Marley. She has toured internationally appearing at Carnegie Hall, The Barbican, Madison Square Garden, Village Vanguard, Blue Note Tokyo, Hollywood Bowl and numerous festivals around the world, and now at the Humanity in Harmony Music Festival-Daniel Pearl world Music Days in Flint, Michigan.