David Skidmore is a GRAMMY® Award-winning percussionist, GRAMMY-nominated composer, and musical entrepreneur. His work as both a composer and performer is characterized by an appreciation and affinity for music across a tremendous range of genres, including classical, pop, hip hop, film scores, rock, ambient, experimental, and the avant-garde. David’s compositions are performed regularly in concert halls and universities across the country. In 2021, he was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition along with the other members of Third Coast Percussion and collaborators Clarice Assad and Sérgio Assad, for their album Archetypes. David has received commissions to compose for many of the world’s leading percussionists and percussion pedagogues. David was awarded 1st prize in the 2005 Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest and 2nd prize in the 2004 contest. In 2005, David co-founded Third Coast Percussion, an ensemble that has performed hundreds of concerts across the country and around the world, presents an annual concert season at home in Chicago, teaches musicians of all ages and experience levels, and has commissioned dozens of new works by many of the world's leading music creators. The ensemble won a Grammy award for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance in 2017. David has also appeared on recordings for dozens of other classical artists, including Dmitri Tymoczko, Donnacha Dennehy, Ensemble Signal, and more.