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.