OTTUMWA — The Ottumwa Community Schools’ Fine Arts department is hosting a school residency and public performance April 24 and 25.

Featured artist Todd Green will perform on a variety of unique string, flute and percussion instruments from around the world.

On Friday, Green will perform school residencies at Pickwick Elementary at 9 a.m. and Douma Elementary at 1:45 p.m.

A free public performance will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at the Ottumwa High School auditorium.

Green has astounded audiences across the country with his instrument diversity. His performance will be enhanced by digital samplers, making him a one-man-orchestra of unique and exotic instruments. As fascinating to watch as to listen to, Green intersperses his playing with entertaining explanations of the music and the instruments.

Green has been writing and performing his own music professionally since the age of 15. He studied composition, arrangement and performance at Berklee College of Music and privately with guitar greats George Benson, Pat Metheny, Christopher Parkening and Mick Goodrick. He also has studied ethnic instruments with players from around the world. His 30 years as a professional musician were spent on the East Coast, especially New York City, where he performed with top studio musicians and toured extensively with bands throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.