Sam Boutris - Clarinet

Sam Boutris regularly performs as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He is the recipient of the ‘Music Solis’ grand prize award at the 2019 Chamber Music Northwest international Clarinet Competition. 

Recent concerts include performances of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet (Rolston String Quartet) and Clarinet Concerto at Chamber Music Northwest. A featured recital on the award-winning Crypt Sessions series in New York City, a live broadcast solo recital on WQXR’s Midday Master Series at the Greene Space; solo recitals at Dame Myra Hess (Chicago) Lincoln Centers’ Paul Hall and Wilson Theater, the Harvard Club of New York, La Maison Française at New York University, and a featured recital of the Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets with the Attacca Quartet on the Rockerfeller Noon Series.

Other recent engagements include concerto performances with the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra and the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra. As an orchestral musician Boutris has performed as guest principal clarinet with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, ‘Symphony in C’, New Haven, and Princeton symphonies.

Boutris has also had video performances featured on ClassicFM, and The Violin Channel.

 Sam holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University, and recently held a position in the Artist Diploma Program at the Juilliard School.