Recording artist, performer, producer, inventor, Emmy-winning composer and music education advocate Mark Wood has spent the past four decades electrifying the orchestra industry – literally. The Juilliard-trained violinist (he attended on full scholarship) rose to fame as string master and original member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. He turned the string establishment on its head in the early 1970’s with his invention of the first solid body electric violin. His company Wood Violins is the premier manufacturer of electric violins, violas and cellos worldwide! Mark Wood’s revolutionary music education program Electrify Your Strings! (now in its 24th year) is an intensive musical experience for school music education departments that boosts student self=esteem and motivation and helps raise money for music education. With more than 100,000 students reached, millions of dollars raised to help school music departments across the US, and dozens of school orchestra programs saved from the chopping block because of funds raised through his efforts, Mark Wood has proven himself a man of ideas, action and results. Showing no signs of slowing down, the multi faceted visionary continues to write, perform, record, invent and inspire. As a matter of fact, Mark Wood is just getting started.