Dr. Peter Wood
Associate Professor of Music
Trumpet, Brass Ensembles

Dr. Peter Wood, Associate Professor of Music, teaches applied trumpet and coaches brass ensembles at the University of South Alabama. The 2011 recipient of the Andy and Carol Denny National Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, he also won the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007. His trumpet students have won high honors at national and international competitions, with many going on to enjoy successful performance and teaching careers. He founded the rapidly growing USA brass chamber music program; and he and his colleagues have expanded it to include six brass quintets, trumpet ensemble, horn choir, trombone choir, and tuba-euphonium ensemble. He also founded the South Alabama Brass Chamber Music Honors Festival and has written grants to help bring the St. Louis Brass Quintet, American Brass Quintet, and Rhythm & Brass to campus, among many other renowned guest artists.

As a trumpeter, he has performed on four continents in a wide variety of musical settings. In the spring of 2011, he traveled to northern Italy to teach, perform, and record as an artist-in-residence at the Trento Conservatory. He performs with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra and has released two solo CD recordings on the MSR Classics and Beauport Classical labels. He has performed at conferences of the International Trumpet Guild, College Music Society, and Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States, as well as at the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. He has taught master classes and performed solo recitals at colleges and universities all over the United States and was twice selected to perform at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as at the Nong Festival of Electroacoustic Music at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul, South Korea. In 2010, he attended the 35th annual conference of the International Trumpet Guild in Sydney, Australia, where he taught a trumpet masterclass for The Music Place, one of the largest music stores in Australia, performed as soloist on the world premiere of Robert J. Bradshaw's The Concept of Anxiety, and conducted the USA Trumpet Ensemble in a prelude concert for the Sydney Brass. 

In addition to his teaching and performing activities, Wood is the Editor of the "Recording Reviews" column of the International Trumpet Guild Journal and has served as Tour Director for the Alabama Ambassadors of Music, a group of top high school and college music students and teachers from all over the state of Alabama who perform concerts in seven European countries over the span of 16 days every other summer.

Wood earned the Doctor of Music degree in Trumpet Performance and Literature at Indiana University-Bloomington, the Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Bachelor of Science in Music Education degree at the University of Illinois. His principal trumpet teachers include Stephen Burns, Edmund Cord, John Aley, Ray Sasaki, Michael Tunnell, and Patrick Dessent. He lives in Mobile with his wife, hornist Jodi Graham Wood, and three children.

Contact Info

Dr. Peter J. Wood
Associate Professor of Music
Department of Music
Laidlaw Performing Arts Center
5751 USA Drive South, Rm 1150
Mobile, AL 36688-0002
251-460-7821
pwood@jaguar1.usouthal.edu


Education

Bachelor of Music Education
University of Illinois

Master of Music in
Trumpet Performance

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Doctor of Music in
Trumpet Performance

Indiana University


Recordings

Statements, Commanding-I
By Robert J. Bradshaw

Ken Bits-III-Matatu Alert
By Paul Basler

Enjoying Life
By Ivan Eršd

Concerto for Trumpet-II
By Robert J. Bradshaw


Course Syllabi and Web Sites

Applied Trumpet
Trumpet Ensemble
Brass Ensembles
Brass Literature
Brass Pedagogy
Introduction to Music