About

Welcome to Elijah Wood’s world! Go check out Wood’s new release, Somnium on iTunes! Also, check out the music video for Somnium!

Elijah Wood is the son of world-renowned electric violinist Mark Wood and vocalist Laura Kaye and has been the drummer in The Mark Wood Experience since 2006.

He tours regularly with Electrify Your Strings!™, a revolutionary series of music education programs developed by Mark Wood, and has performed in front of thousands of people in a wide variety of performance settings over the years. Close to 40,000 orchestra, band, and choir students participated in Electrify Your Strings!™ in the 2009-2010 school year alone.

Elijah has performed at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA for 4 consecutive years with The Mark Wood Rock Orchestra, whose performances on the main stage in the convention center lobby consistently draw a capacity crowd. He also performs at a variety of different booths at the convention.

Elijah was the drummer for the historic first-ever Mark Wood Rock Orchestra Camp in Kansas City, and has been featured on a segment of NBC’s “The Today Show.” This can be seen in the “videos” section.

Elijah studies with several prominent drummers, most notably his mentor Jeff Plate (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Savatage, Metal Church, Machines of Grace); and John Macaluso (ARK, TNT, Yngvie Malmsteen).

In 2008, Elijah was the winner of Drumfight, a major NY area drum competition; thoroughly impressing the judges who included legendary drummer Carmine Appice, with whom he was personally invited to jam at the 2010 NAMM Show.

Elijah is a featured drummer on many of Mark Wood’s music scores, including the CBS-TV national broadcast of the Tour de France. He is currently collaborating with Mark on material for his upcoming CD.

In late 2011, Elijah met up with guitarist, Steve Costello, a brilliant young guitarist from Toronto, Canada. They’re working on releasing an EP very shortly! Steve also played on Elijah’s new track, “Somnium.”

In addition, Elijah has been working with the great young singer/songwriter, Jaclyn Kenyon and currently is getting attention from major record labels.

While Elijah performs with many notable musicians, he also is working on his solo career and released his first single on March 20th, 2012 – which can be found on iTunes!

His instrument of choice is drums, but he also sings, plays piano, and guitar.

My influences include:

Mike Portnoy, Gavin Harrison, Jeff Plate, Neil Peart, John Bonham, Terry Bozzio, Vinnie Colaiuta, Dave Weckl, Dave Grohl, John Macaluso, David Lewitt, Joe Franco, Carmine Appice, Bernard Purdy, Bill Bruford, Alex Van Halen, Keith Moon, Mitch Mitchell, Tony Williams, Phil Collins, Billy Cobham, Chad Wakerman

My band influences include:

Rammstein, Dream Theater, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Frank Zappa, Avenged Sevenfold, Gentle Giant, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Genesis, ELP, Army of Anyone, King Crimson, Metallica, Cynic, Sound Garden, Liquid Tension Experiment, Rage Against The Machine, Queen, Pink Floyd, Ozzy Osborne, Pagan’s Mind, Foo Fighters, Filter, Extreme, Audio Slave, Jordan Rudess