Ulli Bögershausen
Ulli Bögershausen at the Frankfurt Music Fair at the Lakewood Guitars stand in April 2016
Ulli Bögershausen (born May 16, 1954 in Rheda-Wiedenbrück ) is a German solo guitarist and guitar teacher. He gained international fame through touring Japan, the USA and Taiwan in 1995, published a number of solo CDs and wrote several guitar textbooks . He is also a workshop lecturer at home and abroad.
Bögershausen started playing the guitar at the age of nine.
Ulli Bögershausen prefers the steel string guitar , the sharper tone separation of which gives complicated melodies with rhythmic figures greater transparency. He likes to use the long decaying, singing tone of the instrument as a compositional element. He is an endorser of Lakewood Guitars , which has released a signature model for him.
Most important concerts
- International dance and folk festival Rudolstadt 1997
- Guitar Festival Wiesloch 1997
- Open Strings Festival Osnabrück 1997 and 1999
- Alte Oper Frankfurt 1986, 1988, 1991
- Nashville Guitar Festival 2000
- Convention Center Los Angeles 2000
- Folkalliance Cleveland 2000
- Central Station Music Hall Taipei 2002
- Japan tours in 2000 and 2002
- Taiwan tours in 2001 and 2002
- Korea tour 2014
- China tours 2014, 2016, 2017.
Discography
- 1981 "definitely maybe"
- 1983 "In the Twilight"
- 1984 "against time"
- 1986 "autogenous"
- 1988 "Live" with Mohammad Tahmassebi
- 1991 "April" with Reinhold Westerheide
- 1993 "Best of ..."
- 1995 "ageless guitar solos"
- 1998 "Pictures" with Reinhold Westerheide
- 1999 "Sologuitar" 15 solo pieces
- 2000 Personal Favorites - Super Audio CD, only available in Asia
- 2002 Private Stories
- 2002 Christmas Carols
- 2004 Chocolate and Wine
- 2006 Ballads
- 2007 vinyl
- 2008 Crimson
- 2010 In a Constant State of Flux
- 2012 Christmas Carols
- 2013 15 lullabies
- 2014 Spring Summer and Fall - Tunes of a Lifetime
- 2017 tides
- 2018 The Celtic Album (digital only)
- 2019 Miniatures (digital only)
Scores and TABs
- definitely maybe (Edition Kröpcke 1981)
- Professional picking made easy (Acoustic Music 1996)
- Fingerstyle Guitar Made Easy (Acoustic Music 1997)
- Fingerstyle Guitar Made easy (Mel Bay)
- ageless guitar solos (Acoustic Music 2000)
- Open Tunings Made Easy (Acoustic Music 1998)
- From the beginning! - Vol. 1 & 2 (Acoustic Music 1999)
- My Songbook (Enrich Music 2000)
- My DADGAD Sound (Acoustic Music 2003)
- Christmas Charols in Open Tunings (Heinrichshofen 2001)
- Chocolate & Wine (Edition Laika)
- Easy Fingerstyle - Vol. 1 & 2 (Acoustic Music Books 2005)
- 10 Duets with Franco Morone (Acoustic Music Books 2009)
- Personal Favorites Popsongs for guitar (Acoustic Music Books 2011)
- Christmas Carols 20 Christmas songs for guitar (Acoustic Music Books 2012)
- 15 Lullabys Folksongs for guitar (Acoustic Music Books 2013)
- More Personal Favorites (Acoustic Music Books 2015)
- Fingerstyle Guitar (Gitarrenschule) (Acoustic Music Books 2016)
- German folk songs (Acoustic Music Books 2016)
DVDs
- Acoustic Guitar Made Easy (Acoustic Music 2000)
- Best of Ulli Bögershausen (Vision Quest Publishing 2004)
- The Fingerstyle All Stars (Vision Quest Publishing 2004)
- My Choice ( Laika Records 2008)
Paperback
- Chocolate and Wine - Autobiography AMB 2014 (German language only)
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bögershausen, Ulli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German guitarist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheda-Wiedenbrück |