He holds a B.A. in Music with Certificate in Performance, and an M.M. in Trumpet Performance from Florida State University, where he studied with Bryan Goff and John Ossi. He was the Master's Level winner of the 1992 National Trumpet Competition, finalist in the 1989 ITG Mock Orchestral Competition, winner and finalist in numerous regional competitions, and recipient of many ITG Conference Scholarships. Bodiford plays with the Florida Wind Band, and has played with several orchestras in the Tampa Bay area, and is an active soloist in the area. He has a large collection Mahillon trumpets, cornets, flugelhorns, and piccolo trumpets, and is actively conducting research in an attempt to verify manufacture dates of Mahillon instruments.