Ulli Bögershausen

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Ulli Bögershausen at the Frankfurt Music Fair at the Lakewood Guitars stand in April 2016
Ulli Bögershausen at the Frankfurt Musikmesse during the Acoustic Night on April 8, 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)

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