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Paul "Skip" Moyer started to study bass with Wes Fisher at the age of 15. At age 17 he studied with Frederick Zimmerman while at a string conference at West Chester University. During his senior year at Reading High School he started to play with the Reading Symphony Orchestra and the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra. During this time Skip's first professional jazz gig was with Joe Miller and the Reading Jazz Quartet. He also won a scholarship sponsered by the National Musicians Union for the Congress of Strings. At Michigan State University, where he studied with Warren Benfield of the Chicago Symphony.

He joined the Navy the day before his 18th birthday as a musician and graduated from the Navy school of music. After three years in the Navy he studied with Frederick Batchelder of the Philadelphia Orchestra for a year. He then moved to New York City to study with Johnny Schaeffer, principal bass of the New York Philharmonic. While living in New York for two and a half years he worked for Carl Fischer Music Publishers.

He auditioned to play in a Broadway show and was selected to play onstage as part of the show "Morning, Noon, and Night" a cult classic put on Broadway by the Circle in the Square Theatre Company of Greenwich Village.

Skip has had an eclectic and interesting musical career playing all over the world in every musical venue from Arthur Fiedler, Eugene Ormandy, Broadway Theatre in New York to the "Hunch Boogie Band" and The Mischief Makers German Polka Band. Skip has been playing with the Reading Symphony for 41 years. He has also played in the Filharmonica de Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela for one year.

While living in New York Skip played in a band with Nell Carter. He also played with Dave Bromberg and Kenny Kosek, James Cotton, Al Kooper, Elliot Randal and John Hall. Some jazz notables Skip has performed with - Dave Stahl, Jimmy Dorsey, Sammy Kaye and Les Elgart Big Bands. Walt Levinsky, Larry McKenna, Nathan Davis, Al Grey, Don Patterson, Gerry Mulligan, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Tim Warfield, Ron Thomas, Brian Wilson, Jimmy Bruno, Mark O'Conner, Dennis DeBlasio, Tim Price, Dave Lalama, Ralph Lalama and Nicole Pasternak.