"Best Brazilian Jazz Guitarist in U.S."
               Guitar One Magazine

          New School University faculty               
          College of Performing Arts
          Jazz and Brazilian Music
          University Distinguished Teaching Award

          LaBella Strings endorsing artist

”It is very rare to find an American musician who embraces our music and culture with such passion and authenticity. Richard Boukas is one of these exceptional artists. His diverse talents as a guitarist, composer, vocalist and educator lend him an artistic passport into almost any musical situation.”

Paquito d’Rivera

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"Very few musicians today can be so adept at the arts of composition, arrangement and performance of a musical language that they were not born into. Richard Boukas is one of these rare individuals, and I heartily recommend his work in all its multiple forms. He definitely has captured the soul of Brazilian music in his heart."

Jovino Santos Neto

Professor of Music
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA
three-time Grammy nominee

– DIÁLOGOS DUO

• NEW CD: "Choro Tributes"

featuring landmark suite
"A Dozen Choro Tributes"

AVAILABLE SOON:

• CDs and Digital Downloads 

• CD Release Concerts TBA

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New clarinet quartet composition "Embolada" 
for "Sopros de PE", Pernambuco, Brazil

• The acclaimed Brazilian clarinet quartet commissioned the new work, "Embolada" which is ten minutes in length. Boukas met the ensemble at the recent ClarinetFest where Diálogos Duo were featured performers.

• CD Review in THE CLARINET 
(International Clarinet Association)
READ IN BLOG

• RIFFTIDES BLOG feature by Doug Ramsey

– QUARTETO MODERNO CD REVIEW 
in All About Jazz

"Their performances are uniformly high spirited and totally captivating– just the sensation of total honesty" - Mark Holston