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Quincunx
QUINCUNX - a chamber cycle for guitar & strings featuring: Jiji (guitar) & Danbi Um (violin); Gabriele Leite (guitar) & Nick Revel (viola); Trevor Babb (guitar) & Tom Kraines (cello); Jordan Dodson (guitar) & Robert Black (bass). Purchase at FRAMEWORKS Records or stream it on Spotify.
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Victory - Victoria
May 13 2026
Saint Ann Elementary School Choir will premiere “Victory - Victoria” (a Sing Me A Story commission)
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Network for New Music Solos in Solidarity
Sunday; May 17 @ 3 PM at the Germantown Branch of the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, Thomas will perform his Prelude & Redouble for solo classical guitar.
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Network for New Music
On Saturday; June 6 @ 2 PM, Network for New Music will perform a program of Cage, Cowell, Yun, and Eastman at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Thomas will perform Sofia Gubiadulina’s “Serenade” for solo classical guitar.
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In Organo Pleno
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 @ 12:15 pm, Carson Cooman (organ) will premiere “In Organo Pleno [Prelude I] at The Memorial Church, Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
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Bombe Fits
June 25 2025 — Bombe Fits, featuring Katy Avery, Artistic Director & soprano; Daniel Spratlan, Co-Artistic Director; Patrick Nugent, bass; Evan Chapman, percussion, and Thomas Schuttenhelm on guitar, will perform at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill.
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Mariel Capanna / MATRIX 198
July 11 2026 at 2 PM at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford CT, Thomas curates a program including music by Robert “Bob” Capanna: “Phorminx II” for solo classical guitar, and other original compositions.
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Schubert Re-framed
June 13 2026, Delaney Finn (mezzo-soprano) will premiere “Nacht und Traume” and “Du bist die ruh” for a concert honoring Gary Russell Hamilton