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In my teaching, i aim to break the mould of string education and bring it to the 21st century. Along the way, he launched his own music education program, electrify your strings, which is in its 16th year. Electric violinist visits mondavi for holiday show, backed. A successful solo artist and published author, woods absolute passion is music education. With instruction righ t out of marks famous music edu. Today eys visits upwards of 60 schools per year and there is a waiting list of schools wanting to participate.
Mark wood is the author of apple pro training series 3. Mark wood has 38 books on goodreads with 227 ratings. Starting with rehearsals and culminating in an exciting rock n roll concert with mark and the entire school orchestra, teachers all over the u. The first in a series of forthcoming educational books, wood is passionate about providing educators and students with the tools they need to succeed in the classroom and beyond.
This may be studied with an acoustic instrument and is well worth examining. Nyc 5borough youth rock symphony by mark wood kickstarter. It took about a year from the ideas initial inception, from when mark and i met at the australian. He is dedicated to bringing his message to students and educators in schools and stores across the country. Mark s actual signature greatly increases the value. The mark wood improvisational violin methodpublished by cherry lanehal leonard is regarded as the definitive electric violin method book. Transsiberian orchestra violinist mark wood announces. Im januar 2008 erschien sein buch electrify your strings. Mark s electrify your strings improvisational violin method provides a fresh approach to violin instruction. Mark wood s groundbreaking electrify your symphony music education program for orchestra, choir, and.
Marks electrify your strings improvisational violin method provides a fresh approach to violin instruction. All my great artist mentors and i will be traveling around this great country of ours inspiring and empowering young people. Embarking on an australian first, i decided to team up with legendary american electric violinist mark wood and put on an electrify your strings concert at the athenaeum theatre in melbournes cbd. In january 2008, his methods book electrify your strings was published, and he is currently in the midst of electrify your strings ultimate tour. See all 5 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
He will take the stage with approximately 100 students to present the concert, electrify your strings, 7 p. Electrify your strings, band and choir arts in education directory. The mark wood improvisational violin method published by cherry lane is regarded as the definitive electric violin method book. The pedagogy is logical, progressive, and easy to understand. You can also catch the concert on time warner cable channel 19 at 5. Isbn 9781575607436 9781575607436 softcover, cherry lane music, 2008 flo motion.
A percentage of all earmarked, instore purchases that day will go to support the orchestras endeavor to bring in the electrify your strings program. Mark will perform with the students on his handcrafted 7string fretted electric viper violin as part of the 20192020 electrify your strings. A glimpse into the power of eys, featuring footage from extravaganzas with the mark wood experience in. We are possibly going to make the guinness book of world records for the largest number of. May 07, 2014 dubbed the les paul of the violin world by pbs, mark wood first turned the string establishment on its head in the early 1970s with his invention of the first solidbody electric violin. The official page for worldrenowned electric violinist and music education advocate mark wood. The first in a series of forthcoming educational books, wood is passionate about providing educators and students with the tools they need to succeed in the classroom. On march 56, 2010 mark wood, former lead violinist for trans siberian orchestra will be at columbia hs for a 2 day electrify your strings workshop and concert. He is best known as drummer for american heavy metal band savatage on their albums since japan live 94, and was also a member of metal church from 2006 to their break up in 2009 and again from their reunion in 2012 to 2017. Mark wood presents the electrify your symphony ultimate tour. Turbow fire n ice tour dates home turbow about calendar rock symphonies media. For more information on marks electrify your strings program, visit the eys website. The mark wood improvisational violin method,and he plans to write.
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The amazing folks at lkr, like electrify your choir and electrify your strings. She had already decided to leave the stability of teaching and try her hand as a fulltime musician when she met mark wood. Mark wood, electrify your strings, wood violins this book becomes the essential road map for chopping and beyond. Electric violin star mark wood returns to davis high. On monday, wood will begin his twoday music camp, known as electrify your strings, working with students in byrnes high schools orchestra. For schools that want to go all out, wood and his team which include vocalistwife laura kaye and their drummerson elijah will also design an accompanying program for the schools choral department andor the band department. Through the program, wood works with high school music students around the country. He now runs a music education program titled electrify your strings, and visits dozens of. Mark woods groundbreaking electrify your symphony music education program for orchestra, choir, and. He has also taught at the annual mark oconnor fiddle camps, and, in 2008, was elected to the board of the american string teachers association.
Eys series of music education outreach programs is the most groundbreaking program of its kind and is a natural tiein to wood violins products. He currently plays with the group transsiberian orchestra. Electrify your strings, band and choir arts in education. The mark wood improvisational violin method violinelectric violin cherry lane music. Mark wood, an original member of the multiplatinum selling transsiberian orchestra and creator of the revolutionary viper electric violin, is bringing his music education program electrify your. Finally a method that teaches violinists how to improvise. The ultimate tour with mark wood wednesday, december 4, 2019 at western branch high school, chesapeake, va.
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