Dr. Peter Wood serves as Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of South Alabama in the United States. A 2007 recipient of USA¹s Excellence in Teaching Award, he has taught master classes and performed throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Europe, and South Korea. He performs with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra and has released two solo CD recordings on the MSR Classics and Beauport Classical labels. He serves as editor of the Recording Reviews column for the International Trumpet Guild Journal and as Tour Coordinator for the Alabama Ambassadors of Music. Prior to his appointment at the University of South Alabama, he served for ten years as a high school and college band director; and he has played with numerous orchestras, concert bands, and brass quintets throughout the United States.

Wood earned the Doctor of Music degree in Trumpet Performance at Indiana University, the Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Bachelor of 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.