“Sheer Musicality”

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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 2018 classical music albums by All Music, I Care if You Listen, and other publications.

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:

2026

February 22- Olsen/De Cari duo perform Flippin’s “The Darkness is God” for Boston Classical Guitar Society. Hingham, MA.

2025

September: Flippin has joined the guitar faculty of the Vassar College Department of Music.
September 13: Flippin’s piece ‘The Darkness is God’ premiered by Olsen/De Cari duo @ Village Trip GuitarFest.
November: Duo Noire in recital Cleveland Classical Guitar Society. Premiering several newly commissioned works.
June: Classical Guitar Academy Festival Beverly, MA.
April 2025: Flippin performs Chris Brubeck Double Concerto for Classical and Blues Guitars with D.J. Sparr @ GREENSBORO SYMPHONY, North Carolina.
March 5th, 2025: Solo Recital for Lent Music Meditations at First Presbyterian, NYC.
February 2025: Yale Guitar Extravaganza with Duo Noire et al.
January 9-26: Flippin joins Dan Schlosberg and Target Margin Theater for a reimagined Show Boat: A River @ NYU’s Skirball Theater, as featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Flippin commissioned by Juilliard to compose a new string quintet. To be premiered by Juilliard faculty in 2026.