Electric violinist Mark Wood brings his Electrify Our Band program to the Harrison Performing Art Center at Harrison High School, 255 Union Avenue, on Saturday, February 6th at 7pm. Wood, also a member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, is an accomplished musician and the inventor of the Viper electric violin. He is a graduate of Julliard and has worked with artists such as Billy Joel and Lenny Kravitz.
Wood’s method for the program, Electrify Your Strings, is to send the participating school, music to be performed via .pdf file and to have the school orchestra rehearse the pieces ahead of time. Two days before the show, Wood himself arrives at the school with his band and begins an intense period of rehearsal with the students. He also provides Viper electric violins for selected students to use during the show.
Taking this program to schools all over the country, Wood is a dedicated educator with the stated goal of teaching string players to expand their views of what their instruments are capable of. Along with his own band, the Mark Wood Experience, the show will feature The Harrison High School Band and Chorus, the Louis M. Klein Orchestra and the string students from the Parsons, Harrison Avenue, Purchase, and Preston Elementary Schools. The Harrison performance will feature some of Wood’s own compositions and songs by artists such as Led Zeppelin.
A simple YouTube search will reveal what the audience members have in store, as the site has many videos of previous performances at other schools. Other videos can be seen at www.electrifyyourstrings.com.
For tickets call 914-552-8005 or go to www.HPBAEVENTS.com.
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