Ulrike Hausmann has built up an impressive reputation as a powerful yet sensitive blues and boogie pianist, drawing attention with her unconventional original compositions. Highlights of her remarkable career include performances with Vince Weber, including in 2010, 2016 and 2022 at the legendary Fabrik in Hamburg, as well as with Axel Zwingenberger, who invited her on stage for a joint session with Charlie Watts. The concerts "Boogie Round The Globe" in Hamburg and Dresden with Jan Preston, Australia's outstanding boogie and ragtime pianist, as well as her regular participation in the international "Jazz In Town" in Berlin, the "Festival de Jazz 'Sim Copans' de Souillac" in France, the "Boogie Woogie Festival Cambrai" and the annual INTERNATIONALES DIXIELAND FESTIVAL Dresden are among her most significant achievements.
In 2011 she released her first solo CD, "Session By Myself", followed by the CD "Jumpin‘ In The Darkness" in 2019. Her father, Gert Hausmann, the unforgettable jazz pianist from Dresden and co-founder and, for more than 30 years, leader of the "Elb Meadow Ramblers", introduced her to the piano and swing jazz in early childhood.
From the ages of 10 to 16, she received classical piano lessons from Manfred Schneider, which created a solid foundation for her later playing. In 1982, the first concert by Vince Weber in the GDR - an outstanding boogie and blues pianist as well as singer - proved to be a defining revelation and had a lasting influence on the course of her musical development at the piano. Enthusiastic, the then 15-year-old practised boogie bass lines, jumped from piano to piano, and soon earned the name "Boogie-Baby".
In 1989, she stepped onto the stage for the first time with „Jazzquintett Dresden“ while undertaking exciting performance tours through Thuringia, right as the border was opened. Between 1990 and 1994, she enthusiastically took part in a jazz workshop and received jazz piano lessons from Budde Thiem and Volker Graf at the Musikschule Fürth. After returning to Dresden, she once again devoted herself to boogie woogie and blues. She feels equally at home both at the pub piano and at major festivals.