Difficulty- Advanced
Number of Players- 7 Players
Instrumentation- 2 Marimbas (2-5.0), 2 Vibraphones (3.0), Metal Pipes, Snare Drum, Horizontal Kick Drum, Electronics (Fixed Media, includes separate stereo audience track and click track. A computer with a DAW capable of running multiple outputs, audio interface, headphones for all performers, and speakers are required)
Publisher- Self-Published by Composer. Available at (http://skidmorepercussion.com/)
Program Notes-
Future Studies was commissioned by
by the University of North Texas Percussion Ensemble; Mark Ford, director
This piece should be performed with a click track and backing audio track.
Composer Bio-
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.
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 composers including Philip Glass, Missy Mazzoli, Devonté Hynes, Jlin, Danny Elfman, Clarice and Sérgio Assad, Missy Mazzoli, David T. Little, Timo Andres, Donnacha Dennehy, Chris Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Ted Hearne, Glenn Kotche and Augusta Read Thomas. Called “vibrant” and “superb” by Alex Ross of The New Yorker, Third Coast Percussion is Ensemble-in-Residence at Denison University. 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.
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.
David served for 4 years on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Chapter of the Recording Academy, and for 6 years on the Board of Directors for Chamber Music America. From 2009-2013, David taught on the percussion faculty at the Peabody Conservatory. He currently resides in Chicago.
David received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Northwestern University School of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. His teachers have included Robert Van Sice, Michael Burritt, James Ross, James Hannah, Shawn Schietroma, and Michael Hernandez.