The instruments of choice for the best players in the world... MARK WOOD MARK WOOD, award winning composer, interna- Magazine, among others. tional recording artist, and electric violinist, is widely Mark is currently starring in a national TV ad campaign acknowledged as the premier electric rock violinist of for Pepsi. The music track is a Kanye West produced his generation. Mark studied under maestro Leonard hip hop version of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” Bernstein at Tanglewood and attended the Juilliard (featuring the rapper Nas). School of Music on full scholarship, which he left Mark won an Emmy award for his music for the Tour to pursue his vision of bringing rock violin into the De France bike race on CBS-TV and received three mainstream. His first release “Voodoo Violince” is widely additional Emmy nominations. As an inventor, Mark hailed as the quintessential rock violin record. In addi- established Wood Violins, a company whose mission is tion to his own band, The Mark Wood Experience, he to make Mark’s incredible instruments available to the has received two platinum and gold records from his general public. work with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and has toured Mark’s Electrify Your Strings!™ series of music educa- and performed with Dee Snider’s Van Helsing’s tion programs have become enormously successful Curse, Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Lenny Kravitz, and and in demand with hundreds of schools participating Jewel. Mark has been a featured guest on The Tonight around the country. Show with Jay Leno, and has had articles written His definitive electric violin method book by the about him in the New York Times, USA Today, and Time same name is a must-have for all string players. RACHEL BARTON PINE ~ Solo Artist RACHEL BARTON PINE is one of JESSE SPENCER ~ House and Band From TV the most-recognized names on the classical music scene today. JESSE SPENCER, one of the stars She made her debut as a soloist of the hit TV show “House” also with the Chicago Symphony at happens to be a wonderful violin- age 10. Since then she’s gone ist who performs with Band From on to perform with orchestras all TV, a group comprised of TV actors over the world, as well as with who devote their free time to raising many of rock’s biggest names. She millions of dollars for their personal uses her fame to extol the virtues charities. Jesse plays a stunning of ALL genres of music – and her 5-string fretless Sabre with a Barbera Viper helps her spread the word! pickup, Perfection pegs, and a teak tiger maple exotic top. MARCUS RATZENBOECK ~ Tantric JIMMY HERMAN ~ Carrie Underwood MARCUS RATZENBOECK is in the JIMMY HERMAN plays a 5-string phenomenal group Tantric and fretless Viper with American Idol owns an entire arsenal of Wood winner Carrie Underwood. He is instruments, including two Vipers also the proud owner of a 7-string and a Sabre. Having recorded several fretted Viper with a camouflage CDs and music videos with Tantric, finish from our new Artist Series. Marcus is also an accomplished Jimmy is currently on a world music educator, was concertmaster tour with Carrie promoting her of the Louisville Bach Society, and enormously successful catalogue was the principal second violin of the of CDs. Louisville Orchestra. SHAWN BAILEY ~ Big and Rich ASHA MEVLANA ~ Porcelain, Gnarls Barkley SHAWN BAILEY plays a 5-string fretless Viper with Warner Brothers country artists Big and ASHA MEVLANA plays a Rich and Cowboy Troy. He has performed 7-string fretted Viper with with his Viper at the Country Music Awards, Universal Records band Good Morning America, and more! Porcelain. She has also toured with Gnarls Barkley and performed with Alanis Morisette on the Tonight Show. Strings will never be the same. WOODVIOLINS.COM.