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Didier Lockwood (11 February 1956 – 18 February 2018) was a French violinist.He played in the French rock band Magma in the 1970s, and was known for his use of electric amplification and his experimentation with different sounds on the electric violin.
In their first week of recording sessions at Boyd's studio in Virginia they tracked the bulk of their first studio album, Let The Rocks Cry Out, which Tinsley produced. The album was released digitally on all platforms March 14, 2017, and physically on April 22, 2017.
Barcus Berry have been producing electric violins since the mid-1960s [5] and in the early 1970s Max Mathews began developing an electric violin [6] which reached completion in 1984 [7] During the 1980s more companies were formed producing their own brand of electric violin, such as RAAD [8] or The Amazing Electric Violin [9] and ZETA. [10]
Mark Winthrop Wood is an American electric violinist and the founder of Wood Violins, a company that manufactures his electric violin designs. His music education program, Electrify Your Symphony, has been featured on news programs nationwide. [1] He is also an Emmy-winning composer and the original string master of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra ...
[1] [2] Amati is credited with making the first instruments of the violin family that are in the form we use today. [3] Several of his instruments survive to the present day, and some of them can still be played. [3] [4] [5] Many of the surviving instruments were among a consignment of 38 instruments delivered to Charles IX of France in 1574. [6]
After violin lessons at school, she studied at the Trinity College of Music in Greenwich for five years, where at the age of 13 years she won the "Henry Wood Prize for most promising string player". When she was 14, she played at Wigmore Hall , London in a masterclass with the Vienna Piano Trio. [ 14 ]
Purple Electric Violin Concerto 2 was released in 2001. Alleyne-Johnson's next 2 albums, Echoes, Reflections consist of instrumental covers of popular rock and pop tracks. The 2011 Arpeggio album led off with a crashing, cover version of The Who's Baba O'Riley and also included another cover of Human by The Killers ; the album contains seven of ...
He was formerly first violinist with the Turtle Island String Quartet, a member of the Terry Riley Trio with composer Terry Riley and a long-time guest artist with pianist Jim Brickman. He is notable not only for his development and use of the electric 6-string violin, but also for what he terms “progressive string playing”, an evolution of ...