Ulli Bögershausen is a guitarwizard with a truly remarkable craft at his command. He possesses a gift formaking time stand still. And while the moment lingers, his solo guitar playingpaints pictures upon the very soul of his audience – inobtrusive, yetunforgettable; vignettes glowing with the serenity of a day in late summer, aslight melancholy blended wonderfully with a mediterranean joy of living in asteady dance-like flow of notes in the air of an endless blue September day.

After more thantwenty years of performing and recording, the seasoned German guitarist canboast stacks of rhapsodizing concert reviews from newspapers and magazinesanywhere between Los Angeles, Bonn, and Taipei. He has held audiencesspellbound at guitar festivals in the U.S.A. and in the concert halls of Japan,Taiwan, Korea and most recently China. His playing has been called“breathtaking in its intertwined harmonies and its unfailing timing”, hisperformances have been considered “as if from a fairy tale”, and his albumshave been regarded as models of “sensitive string wizardry” and of “guitar music for the 21stcentury”.



Steeped in thetradition of the folk guitar, but constantly refined by his classical studies,Bögershausen’s playing continues to leave the audience with the best of bothworlds. A breezy lightness pervades everything, tastefully balanced by analmost classical sense of formal depth and compositional coherence. UlliBögershausen has taken his time to develop a style all his own, quietlyincorporating state-of-the-art skills, styles, and techniques all the while.

As a result,Bögershausen not only plays two or more independent lines at the same time, butalso manages to give each line its distinct voice as if a complete orchestrawere at work. His crystal-clear single-note runs make the 32nd notessparkle intensely like effervescent water. Like legendary John Renbourn, UlliBögershausen has given the steelstring guitar an unheard-of sound of effortlesselegance, whose liveliness owes little to the strict classical guitar ideal oftone.

His internationalbreakthrough, 1995’s landmark album “Ageless Guitar Solos”, deftly summarizesmore than 30 years of fingerstyle guitar, easily matching original renditionsby the likes of Leo Kottke and Alex DeGrassi in terms of feeling and virtuosoperformance.



In his mostlyballadlike original compositions, Ulli Bögershausen never seems to run out ofsurprising and intriguing melodic inventiveness. Executed with an airy charmand yet with the devotion of a real pro, Bögershausen’s pieces are accessibleenough to make for instant listening delight, while crafted sufficientlycomplex to yield discoveries with each new encounter.

His latest release,“In a Constant State of Flux” breathes the spirit of Bögershausen’s new home on the picturesqueMoselle River (where he also welcomes students for weekend guitar workshops inhis “Mosella Music School”): The dreamlike view from his studio to the bargeson the river and the vineyards on the opposite hillside has made his new piecesemerge even more intensely serene.

“Crimson” leavesthe audience again wonderfully loosened by the magic of good music. Themelodies are so memorable, the performance is so relaxed that only upon veryclose listening will you notice the mastery behind such recordings.

After receivingover 10 million views collectively for his Youtube videos Ulli’s compositionsand arrangements are played by many guitarists all over the world. His original“It Could Have Been” is on it’s way to become one of the most popular acousticguitar songs ever.