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Dr. Peter Wood


Associate Professor of Music
Trumpet, Music Theory, Brass Ensembles

Dr. Peter Wood serves as Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of South Alabama, where he teaches applied trumpet and music theory and coaches brass ensembles. He is a 2007 recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award, and his trumpet students have won high honors at the National Trumpet Competition and International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition and have gone on to enjoy successful performance careers. 

As a trumpeter, he has performed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Europe, and South Korea in a variety of solo, chamber, jazz, and orchestral settings. 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. He recently returned from a 16-day, 7-country tour of Europe, where he was the Tour Director for the Alabama Ambassadors of Music. He also serves the International Trumpet Guild as editor of the Recording Reviews column for the ITG Journal. 

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
LPAC 1150
Department of Music
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
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 Eröd

Concerto for Trumpet-II
By Robert J. Bradshaw


Course Syllabi and Web Sites

Applied Trumpet
Music Theory I and II
Brass Methods
Brass Literature
Introduction to Music

 

 


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