David Skidmore (b. 1982) has performed and collaborated with Pierre Boulez, Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Augusta Read Thomas, Michel Cerruti, and Cliff Colnot. He has performed as a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, and the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra. David has performed as a soloist with the 3rd Coast Percussion Quartet and the Northwestern University Percussion Ensemble, and he was featured as a soloist in Kitara Hall in Sapporo, Japan in 2004. His original compositions for percussion are published by Keyboard Percussion Publications, and are performed in concert halls and universities across America. He was awarded 1st prize in the 2005 Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest and 2nd prize in the 2004 contest, and his piece "Whispers - for 9 Percussionists" was a finalist for an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award in 2005. David has performed on recordings for the Summit and Resonator record labels, and his performances have been broadcast nationally on WFMT Radio, Chicago. David enjoys an active career as a free-lance musician in Chicago. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University where he studied with Michael Burritt, James Ross, Paul Wertico, and Joel Spencer.