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Carnegie Hall/Fadi Kheir

"Truly pathbreaking...greatly satisfying." - All Music

Three standing ovations at the premiere of Chris Brubeck’s *Confluence: Concerto for Classical & Blues Guitars*. Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Fall 2023.

Thomas Flippin is an advocate for new-music and equality in classical music. In 2018, his guitar ensemble, Duo Noire, released their internationally-acclaimed album, Night Triptych, featuring "truly pathbreaking" and "greatly satisfying" premiere recordings of works by diverse women composers they commissioned in 2015. It was named Editor’s Choice for classical music albums that year by both All Music and I Care if You Listen.

Flippin is also an accomplished composer, with recent commissions and performances with the New York Philharmonic, American Composers Forum, Juilliard, the Guitar Foundation of America, the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society in partnership with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and The James Stroud Classical Guitar Competition at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

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Duo Noire @ The Cleveland Orchestra, 2021

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<a href="http://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/duo-noire-night-triptych">Duo Noire: Night Triptych by Duo Noire</a>

Produced with GRAMMY-winning guitarist William Coulter and released in 2018 on the New Focus label, the critically-acclaimed album Night Triptych features six new works by highly accomplished and diverse women composers from around the world: GRAMMY-nominee Clarice Assad, MacArthur Fellow Courtney Bryan, ECM Artist Golfam Khayam, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Gity Razaz, and Gabriella Smith. Available at iTunes, Bandcamp, Amazon, Spotify and elsewhere. Learn more.

Up Next:

2024 -2025

April 2025: Flippin performs Chris Brubeck Double Concerto for Classical and Blues Guitars with D.J. Sparr @ Greenville Symphony Orchestra.
February 2025: Yale Guitar Extravaganza with Duo Noire et al.
2024
October 26, 2024: World premiere of Flippin’s new work for world-renowned virtuoso guitarist Jorge Caballero. Cleveland Classical Guitar Society.
October 13, 2024: Chimera Quartet performs Flippin’s Childhood and Wrecked quartets at the University of Louisville Guitar Festival
September 2024: Duo Noire @ University of Denver Guitar Festival
August 3rd: Ex-Aequo Emerging Artists Initiative. Four chosen international virtuosos perform Flippin’s new work “In the Abstract: Eight Sketches on Norman Lewis” at Austin Classical Guitar. Professional video album recording produced by Drew Henderson to follow.
June 6-9: @ Cleveland for James Stroud Competition. Premiere of Flippin’s composition set-piece Nail-Biter and judging.
May 9th: Flippin performs at Diller-Quaile gala honoring Nathalie Joachim in NYC.
May 3rd, 2024: Premiere of Flippin’s newly commissioned work, Wrecked, for guitar orchestra. Commissioned by the New York City Classical Guitar Society with support from the Augustine Foundation.
March 16th: Ben Verdery performs Flippin’s Nocturne for People Who Can’t Sleep @ Seattle Classical Guitar Society.
March 2nd-3rd: Peabody Conservatory FretFest. Premiere of Flippin’s commissioned work for guitar orchestra, Childhood, featuring Manuel Barrueco’s guitar studio ensemble and preparatory students and faculty.
February 15-17: Flippin’s String Quartet performed by students for Minnesota Music Educator’s Association Midwinter Convention. Featured by American Composers Forum.
February 23rd: Flippin’s String Quartet performed by Juilliard students & the Ivalas Quartet as part of a Juilliard showcase @ Chelsea Factory, NYC 7:30 p.m. Featured in WNYC interview with Arun Venugopal and a Gothamist article.
Feb. 21-23: Virginia —Duo Noire @ Tidewater Classical Guitar Series.
February 29th: Ben Verdery performs Flippin’s Nocturne for People Who Can’t Sleep @ Northern Illinois University.