Education program Electrify Your Strings! comes to Utley Middle School

(ROCKWALL, TX—May 10, 2016) International recording artist and Emmy award winning composer Mark Wood, an original member of the multiplatinum selling Trans-Siberian Orchestra and creator of the revolutionary Viper electric violin, is bringing his groundbreaking music education program Electrify Your Strings! (EYS) to Utley Middle School.

This exciting event will transform the student musicians into a full-fledged Rock Orchestra! Mark will be performing with the students on his handcrafted 7-string fretted electric Viper violin as part of the 2015 Electrify Your Strings! “Authentic Tour” on May 20th, 7:00pm at the Rockwall High School Performing Arts Center. The audience will be entertained by Mark’s original material, as well as his exciting arrangements of music by Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and more. Steveneson Elementary and Utley Middle School orchestra students will perform in a live concert alongside Mark Wood, open to the public with all profits going to the school’s music program.

For more information: http://www.rockwallisd.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Electrify-Your-Strings-Rock-Orchestra-Experience.pdf

Ticket Information: Adults $10, Students $5

www.showclix.com/event/electrify-your-stringsUTLEY

Also available at the Performing Arts Center the evening of the concert.

Submitted by Alyssa Suniga, Rockwall Independent School District Communications Coordinator.

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