Mark Wood plays the violin he invented called “The Viper,” which contains the sounds of an entire orchestra in a single instrument during the Jan. 13 “Electrify Your Strings” concert at Ritsche Auditorium-Stewart Hall, St. Cloud.
Young strings musicians from across central Minnesota spent the afternoon of Jan. 12 in Ritsche Auditorium-Stewart Hall in St. Cloud learning how to play “rockstar-style” from Mark Wood, an Emmy-winning composer, educator, original member of the Trans Siberian Orchestra and inventor of the premier electric violin, dubbed The Viper. The Central Minnesota Youth Orchestra brought the workshop called “The Mark Wood Experience: Electrify Your Strings!” to St. Cloud. Students practiced songs, including Queen’s “We Will Rock You;” The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby;” and Michael Jackson’s “Beat It!”
Mark Wood coaxes the audience to applaud a student performing on one of the electric violins that would later be raffled off during the Mark Wood Electrify Your Strings Concert Jan. 13 at St. Cloud State University Ritsche Auditorium-Stewart Hall.
