Recordings

My Collaborators

I've been fortunate to make music and record with some special people over the years. As a member of the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Trio (along with my partners Marisol Rampolla and Michael Simmons) I was able to arrange previously composed music for other instruments and bring them to audiences in Puerto Rico, Panamá, and the Mid Atlantic region of the U.S.

Mezzo-soprano Sharon Rhinesmith and I attended Temple University's Boyer College of Music together where we bonded over a love of Stephen Foster, Elizabethan Lute Songs and the 'standard' voice & guitar repertoire. We also championed contemporary composers such as Ernesto Cordero, Frantz Casséus, and David Hahn.

Philly Guitar Trio

Debut Recording

Philly Guitar Trio

Danzas, Rags and a Souvenir

Sharon Rhinesmith & Thomas Smith

Child of Song

Sharon Rhinesmith & Thomas Smith

Definitive Journey

Marisol Rampolla, Michael Simmons, Thomas Smith
William Grant Still: Danzas de Panamá
Fauré: Pavane: Op. 50
Stephan Rak: Four Moods for Three Guitars
Emiliano Pardo-Tristán: Con Bembé
Albéniz: Bajo la Palmera, Op.232, No. 3
Vivaldi: Concerto in D Major, RV 93

Marisol Rampolla, Michael Simmons, Thomas Smith
Juan Morel-Campos: Four Puerto Rican Danzas
Joplin: Three Rags
Ignacio Cervantes: Six Cuban Danzas
Laurindo Almeida: Two Divertimenti
Máximo Diego Pujol: Fin de Siglo II
Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Souvenir de Puerto Rico

Sharon Rhinesmith, Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith: Three Songs from The Lamp & the Bell
Villa-Lobos: Prelude No. 4 & Prelude No. 1 (solo guitar)
Ernesto Cordero: Four Works for Voice & Guitar
Villa-Lobos: Prelude No. 3 (solo guitar)
David Hahn: Ostraka for Voice & Guitar
Andrew York: Woven Harmony (solo guitar)

Sharon Rhinesmith, Thomas Smith
Campion & Dowland: Elizabethan Lute Songs
Fernando Sor: Seven Seguidillas
Mátyás Seiber: Four French Folk Songs
Frantz Casséus: Two Haitianesques
Van Der Staak: Three Quatrains by Omar Khayyam
Stephen Foster: Five Songs