David Skidmore is active as both a performer and composer of percussion music. David is a founding member of the Third Coast Percussion Quartet, the Lucerne Festival Percussion Group, and the Collide Trio, and has premiered over three dozen new works with these groups in the past two years alone. He was also recently appointed as solo percussionist with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. In September 2007 David commissioned and premiered a solo concerto with the Royal Academy of Music Orchestra in London. Other recent solo performances include appearances with the Pacific Soundings series in Sapporo, Japan, the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra LaSalle Bank Chamber Music Series. David has performed as a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy, the Pacific Music Festival, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the National Repertory Orchestra and the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, and he has also performed with the New World Symphony, the Breckenridge Music Institute, and at the June in Buffalo Festival with So Percussion. He has played under such conductors as Pierre Boulez, Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, David Robertson, Peter Eötvös, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

David's original works for percussion are performed regularly in concert halls and universities across the country. In May of 2007 his piece, "Unknown Kind", was premiered in Carnegie Hall by Dr. John Parks and the Florida State University Percussion Ensemble. He has received commissions from David Herbert (San Francisco Symphony), the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Dr. John Parks, Mark Ford, the Spindrift Percussion Quartet, and Peter Martin. He was awarded 1st prize in the 2005 Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest and 2nd prize in the 2004 contest. His piece "Whispers - for 9 Percussionists" was a finalist for an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award in 2005, and has been recorded by the Northwestern University Percussion Ensemble and the University of Kentucky Percussion Ensemble.

David completed his Bachelor of Music degree at Northwestern University where he studied with Michael Burritt and James Ross. He is currently pursuing the Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music where he is a student of Robert Van Sice.