Ulli Bögershausen
Quick Facts
Biography
Ulli Boegershausen (born1954 in Rheda Wiedenbrueck) is a German solo guitarist and guitar teacher. He is known internationally for his tours in Japan, America and Taiwan. He also authored several educational books for guitar playing.
Boegershausen started classical guitar music education at the age of 9. He played electric guitar in several music bands and further started academic studies for music teacher but did not finish.
He lives with his family close to Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Ulli Boegershausen prefers playing steel string guitars, which - by a more acute tonal differentiation - give complex melodies and rhythms improved transparency. He likes to use the long lasting, singing tune of that instrument as compositional element. Ulli plays a Lakewood Guitars Ulli Boegershausen Signature model.After receiving millions of views for his YouTube videos Ulli's compositions and arrangements are played by many guitarists all over the world. His original "It Could Have Been" is on its way to become one of the most popular guitar songs ever.
Ulli was mentoring Sungha Jung, a teenage fingerstyle guitar prodigy from Korea for the past 10 years.
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
- Guitar festival Nashville 2000
- Convention Center Los Angeles 2000
- Folkalliance Cleveland 2000
- Central Station Music Hall Taipeh 2002
- Japan Tour 2000 and 2002
- Taiwan Tour 2001 and 2002
- Korea Tour 2010
- China Tours in 2014, 2016 and 2017.
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Discography
- 1981 "ganz bestimmt vielleicht"
- 1983 "Im Zwielicht"
- 1984 "gegen die Zeit"
- 1986 "autogen"
- 1988 "Live" mit Mohammad Tahmassebi
- 1991 "April" mit Reinhold Westerheide
- 1993 "Best of..."
- 1995 "ageless guitar solos"
- 1998 "Pictures" mit Reinhold Westerheide
- 1999 "Sologuitar" 15 Solostücke
- 2000 Personal Favourites – Super Audio CD, nur in Asien erhältlich
- 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 from a Lifetime
- 2017 Tides
- 2018 The Celtic Album (digitally only)
- 2019 Miniatures (digitally only)
Books
- Profipicking leichtgemacht (including CD)
- Fingerstyleguitar leichtgemacht (including CD)
- Open Tunings leichtgemacht (including CD)
- D-Dur Tuning, "Das Loch in der Banane", DADGAD Tuning.
- Von Anfang an,guitar course book in two volumes (including CDs, respectively)
- Ageless Guitar Solos (sheet music and tabulatures for same called CD)
- Mein DADGAD Sound (introduction into Open Tuning DADGAD)
- Easy Fingerstyle (including CD)
- Easy Fingerstyle 2 (including CD)
- 10 Duets (with Franco Morone)
- Personal Favorites - Popsongs arranged for guitar
- Christmas Carols
- 15 Lullabies
- More Personal Favorites
- Fingerstyle Guitar (instructional book in English, German and Chinese)
- German Folksongs