AMEA 2009 Clinicians and Performers
In an industrywhere originality is a highly prized commodity, recording artist, performer, producer, inventor and Emmy-winning composer MarkWood is truly an original. He began his career with a full scholarship to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York and had the privilege of studying under Maestro Leonard Bernstein at the TanglewoodMusic Program.
Mark is currently starring in a national television ad campaign for Pepsi. The music track is a KanyeWest produced hip hop version of "The DevilWent Down to Georgia" (featuring the rapper Nas). As an electric violinist, MarkWood is a highly acclaimed international recording artist who has released six CDs of his highly original music, showcasing his unique approach to the electric violin playing on his own line of patented instruments; he has toured and recorded with many of the industry's most prominent performers. Mark is also lead electric violinist and an original member of the multi-platinum-selling symphonic rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and has performed in front of millions of people with the group since their inception over 10 years ago. He received his first Emmy award for music he composed for CBS-TV’s coverage of the 2002 Tour de France bicycle race, and has received three additional Emmy nominations; for music for theWinter Olympics on CBS-TV and a documentary forABC-TV; the most recent nomination for music for the 2003 Tour de France. He has composed several concertos for electric violin and orchestra; the 15-minute groundbreaking piece entitled “Innocence to Enlightenment” had its debut in August 2003, and “Viper Vs. Orchestra” premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2007 with the EtowahYouth Orchestra.
As an inventor,Mark establishedWoodViolins, a company whose mission is to make Mark's incredible instruments available to the general public. Priding themselves on being the only electric violin company run “by string players, for string players”,WoodViolins has established a formidable reputation in the electric stringworldwith its hand-crafted custominstruments, ranging fromthe 4-string fretless Stingray all the way to the 7-string fretted Viper. In early 2008, Mark was elected to the board of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA), where he will have the opportunity to affect the future of progressive string education in our country on a truly grand scale. In January 2008, Cherry Lane andHal Leonard published “ElectrifyYour Strings,” the definitive electric violin method book written byMarkWood. This is the first in a series of books that Mark is working on and is geared towards students and educators alike.
Dr. Steven Roberts is assistant professor of jazz studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Previously, hewas professor of trumpet and jazz atMarsHill College after holding a similar position at Iowa State University. He is an active teacher and freelance musician and has performed with such greats as Jon Faddis, Cecil and Deedee Bridgewater, Chip McNeill, Jim Pugh, and Charo. He has been a member of the Steve Roberts Jazz Quartet, various jazz ensembles aboard Holland America and Royal Caribbean cruise ships, the Mountain Empire Brass Quintet, the Johnson City Symphony, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony and Sinfonia da Camera.
Dr. Roberts received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in trumpet performance and jazz at the University of Illinois (U.C.) in 2005, where he also received his Masters degree in 2001. He was a soloist with the University of IllinoisWind Symphony, served as principal of theUniversityOrchestra, and filled the jazz chair in the top jazz band. At Illinois he studied trumpet from Ray Sasaki,Michael Ewald, and Ronald Romm, and
jazz from ChipMcNeill, Vern Sielert, and ThomasWirtel.
Dr. Roberts received his Bachelors in Music in 1999 from Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied classical music from members of the Cleveland Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Al Couch and Bill Lucas respectively, and studied jazz from Kenny Davis, Robin Eubanks,Wendall Logan and Neal Creque, freelance musicians from Cleveland and NewYork.
Brent Coleman is in his fifteenth year as the Choral Director of Pizitz Middle School in Vestavia Hills where over 400 students currently participate in the choral program. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Auburn University. Mr. Coleman’s choirs have consistently been awarded superior ratings at the District, State and National level festivals during his tenure. In 2006, the PizitzGirls’Choirwas selected to performat the SouthernDivisionACDAconference in Charleston,WestVirginia. His students have participated in theAlabama All-State Festivals and the Alabama Young Voices Festivals. Mr. Coleman has served as a clinician and a judge for many festivals across the southeast. Mr. Coleman is a member of MENC, AMEA, AVA, ACDA, and is also listed in Who’s Who AmongAmerica’s Teachers 2002 and 2005.
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