Jim Bosse


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Jim Bosse – guitar
29 Eagle Crest Drive, Cañon City,
Colorado 81212
719-275-3840
jimbosse@bresnan.net

Jim began his music career performing in
rock bands. A few of
the musicians Jim performed with achieved great success in
popular music, most
notably, Billy Joel, who Jim performed with from 1962-7.
Jim’s interests
gradually shifted to classical music. He studied with
Colorado’s foremost
guitarists including Charles Wolzein, David Honig, Ricardo
Iznaola, Masa Ito and
Alex Komodore. He has participated in over 30 master classes
with many of the
world’s greatest guitarists.

Jim founded the Colorado Springs Guitar
Society in 1986 and
served as its first President. He taught guitar at Adams
State College from
1995-7, and at the University of Southern Colorado from
1997-2000. He has
performed over 300 concerts in North and South America, has
produced 8 CDs and
published 2 books of his compositions for guitar.