"Wood is a tasteful player with a consistently full, pure, and pleasant tone quality. This is a fine program, well prepared and executed."
American Record Guide ~ March / April 2007

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Dr. Peter Wood serves as Assistant Professor of Music (Trumpet and Music Theory) at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. As a trumpeter, he has performed throughout the United States in various solo, chamber, jazz, and orchestral settings. He plays principal trumpet with the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra and also performs regularly with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with a variety of ensembles including the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra and Brass Quintet, Bloomington Symphony, Columbus Pro Musica, Danville Symphony, Camerata Orchestra, and Wood Family Chamber Players. Solo performances include appearances at conferences of the International Trumpet Guild, College Music Society, Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States, and at the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. He has played recitals and taught master classes at numerous colleges and universities around the United States and 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 (Summa Cum Laude) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His principal trumpet teachers include Stephen Burns, Edmund Cord, John Aley, Ray Sasaki, Michael Tunnell, and Patrick Dessent.

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