Dan Skidmore performs regularly in North Carolina as Concertmaster of the Salisbury Symphony, the Western Piedmont Symphony, and the North Carolina Chamber Orchestra, and as Associate Concertmaster of the Winston-Salem Symphony.  He is the violin instructor at Elon University, Radford University (where he also directs the school's chamber orchestra), and the Oak View Baptist School of Music.  He has also served on the violin faculties of Wake Forest University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Appalachian State University, and Catawba College.  He has performed concertos as soloist with the Salisbury Symphony, the Sunriver Music Festival, the North Carolina Chamber Orchestra, and the Winston-Salem Symphony.  His teachers include Mary Wilson, John Fadial, Blair Milton, and Charles Castleman.