Sea Coast Symphony presents the Mark Wood Trans-Siberian Experience

Mark Wood is a recording artist, performer, producer, inventor, Emmy award-winning composer, and music education advocate who has literally spent the past four decades electrifying the orchestra industry.  A brilliant classical violinist and violist, Mark attended the prestigious Juilliard School in New York on full scholarship before leaving to pioneer and innovate the electric violin genre and ultimately become the premier electric violinist of his generation.  PBS has dubbed Mark the “Eddie Van Halen of the Violin World”.  He is a world-renowned performer who rose to fame as string master and original member of the internationally acclaimed Trans-Siberian Orchestra and a successful solo artist in his own right.  He has collaborated and appeared alongside some of music’s biggest names such as Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Roger Daltry, Steven Tyler, Celine Dion, and Lenny Kravitz.  Mark Wood has drawn on his years of working with the industry’s brightest lights to create the dazzling Mark Wood Trans-Siberian Experience, featuring material that made the Trans-Siberian Orchestra one of the most beloved and successful touring acts in the world for the past 25 years, especially during the holiday season.  On special occasions Mark will perform this show with a live orchestra, raising the concert experience to an entirely different level. On December 27, the power of Mark Wood’s virtuoso rock ensemble will fuse with the majesty of the Sea Coast Symphony to produce a joyous holiday rapture that those in attendance will not soon forget.

In his own words, Mark tells the story of creating this energetic and entertaining show: “I’ll never forget the phone call I received over 30 years ago from my dear friend and brilliant guitarist, Al Pitrelli. He shared with me that famed rock producer Paul O’Neill was putting together a rock orchestra and they wanted ME to oversee the ‘orchestra’ part of this metal rock band. ‘Of course,’ I exclaimed! I studied at Juilliard and played both rock and classical styles on my hand-made electric violin. The band was to be called the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The rest is history….  For over 15 years, I was involved with catapulting this great band into multi-platinum status as we performed multiple concerts daily in arena-sized venues for 30,000+ people!  Several years later, Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame created ‘Van Helsing’s Curse’ (VHC) specifically with me in mind to be the electric string master of that stage extravaganza. These immense and important experiences led me to create my new concert experience. I’ve done my work, and now it is time for me to share my new vision of presenting a holiday and year-round concert experience featuring music from TSO and VHC, along with iconic and legendary rock classics, as well as my original compositions.”