BIO
Lindsey Boullt is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, composer, educator, and artistic entrepreneur whose career reflects both creative daring and dedication to advancing excellence, innovation, and community within the world of music.
Lindsey Boullt is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, composer, educator, and artistic entrepreneur whose career reflects both creative daring and dedication to advancing excellence, innovation, and community within the world of music. He earned global recognition with the release of Composition (2007), a landmark project that brought him international acclaim and ultimately secured his place among the global elite when Note.com | Japan ranked him #29 Best Fusion Guitarist in the World (2020).
In 2013, Boullt received one of the rarest and most prestigious honors in the music industry: the Gibson Artist Contract. Reserved for only the most exceptional artists, this distinction places him in the lineage of guitarists who have redefined the instrument on the world stage.
Recognized by Billboard Magazine – online platform from 2008 to 2012 with official artist and album pages, underscoring a sustained presence and recognition within the industry’s most authoritative music database. Lindsey Boullt established an enduring mark in the industry’s premier music publication during a pivotal era.
A former instructor at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, Boullt’s influence extends across generations of musicians. His students have gone on to attend top-tier institutions including Berklee College of Music, University of North Texas, NYU’s Clive Davis Institute, and Musicians Institute. As a contributing writer for Guitar Player Magazine and a producer of high-level performance showcases, he has consistently shaped both the academic and performance sides of the music landscape.
Boullt’s creative output has been as diverse as it has been impactful. He composed original music for Point Made Films (NYC), contributing to the documentary Adopted, a finalist at the Tribeca Film Festival (2007), and has appeared in television, radio, and interview formats, including MTV events, radio features such as WCSB Cleveland’s The Fusion Show, and regional television segments. He founded and produced Musician’s Showcase (1994–2019), a long-running performance platform that supported thousands of artists, and ChaoticArtCircus, a multidisciplinary performance platform blending live music, theater, dance, and visual art — a creative model rarely sustained outside major cities like New York or Berlin. His work has been featured at festivals, underground arts events, and community-based cultural programs throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Additional production credits include co-producing official City of San Francisco events such as Jerry Garcia Day (2015), Saturday in the Park (2016), and Kids Festival (2017).
Simultaneously, Boullt maintained a relentless performance schedule as a working guitarist across the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and beyond.
Beginning his musical journey at the unconventional age of 21, Boullt defied the traditional timeline of professional musicianship to achieve global recognition across performance, recording, education, and arts leadership. Having purchased his first guitar on his 21st birthday, Boullt accelerated through a rapid trajectory: within a year he was teaching professionally, within three years he was performing in jazz orchestras, professional theater productions, recording sessions, and regional tours. He earned his degree in Music and Theatre Management from the University of Texas at Arlington in just 3½ years on scholarship, graduating on the Dean’s List while balancing teaching, performing, and family life.
Graduating with honors from Musicians Institute in Hollywood (1987), Boullt expanded his career in New York City & Houston before establishing himself in San Francisco, where he remains a vital force in the Bay Area’s cultural and artistic scene.
Today, Boullt is regarded as a true musician’s musician — earning international recognition as a polymath of fusion guitar — an innovator whose command of composition, orchestration, and performance bridges genres and generations. Boullt’s body of work, global recognition, and influence on emerging musicians place him among the most respected figures in modern fusion guitar —an artist whose career reflects both an extraordinary personal journey and a rare level of professional distinction.
Gibson Brands | Les Paul Promo | Artist Lindsey Boullt | Pat Johnson Studios SF | 2013
Highlights
- Gibson, Inc Artist Contract: signed Artist Contract Gibson, Inc 2013. Now part of the Gibson guitar family & supported by Gibson, Inc. | Jennifer Feeney – Los Angeles | Jenny Marsh – Seattle 2013
- Composition Album release: An all original work performed, composed, recorded, and produced by Lindsey Boullt garnering world-wide critical acclaim – loggin over 1 million downloads . Album cohorts include some of the most legendary & influential musicians in Jazz-Rock history. 40+ international magazine reviews. 2007
- Note.com | Japan International Ranking – #29 best guitarist in the world – Fusion” | Everyday Fusion 2020
- Billboard Magazine | Lindsey Boullt Artist Page & Composition album page 2008-2012
- Guitar Player Magazine, contributing writer, 2002 to 2004 and included in the 2007 “The Guitar Player Book – 40 years of History” | Allan Holdsworth article | 2004-2007
- Composer, Point Made Films, NYC. Music for the film, Adopted, a finalist in the Tribeca Film Festival 2007
- ifOnly “Luminary”- Lindsey is selected as a San Francisco ‘IfOnly’ luminary. IfOnly was a San Francisco based e-commerce and charity platform offering exclusive experiences with world luminaries across sports, music, film, and cuisine – icons such as Kobe Bryant, Michael Chiarello, Madonna, Robin Thicke. 2017
- Syrian Humanitarian Aid Concert | Facebook HQ | Art Is. AI. – Naima Shalhoub | Faisal Zedan | Kai Eckhardt | Lindsey Boullt performed at Facebook HQ-1. Menlo Park, California. Speaker/journalist Maria Tran documenting the horror of the refugees journey, The very first ‘live’ music event held at the iconic Facebook campus | 2015
- Pedagogy & Teaching Legacy –Since 1999, six of Lindsey’s students have gone on to attend some of the world’s top music institutions—Berklee College of Music, NYU’s Clive Davis Institute, the University of North Texas, and Musicians Institute/Los Angeles.
- Bay City Life – RealityTV series pilot reel pitched included – Lindsey Boullt, Vernon Davis (SF 49ers), Hunter Pence (SF Giants), Miss India Sandhya Chib, ‘The Beekman Boys’ (winner of the ‘Amazing Race’ TV series). 2014
- ToneRite Promo Tour | Promotional tour with legendary bassist Tony Franklin. Florida 2013
- The Fusion Show | Nationally aired radio interview with the infamous DJ Randy Allar – WCSB 89.3 Cleveland | Odd-Time Obsessed Radio/LosAngeles | Tony Palkovic Radio Show/LosAngeles | International mag interviews –Euro-Rock Press |ProgArchives | Modern Guitarist Mag | Shopify | Giejo BSquared | 2008-2023
- Stanford University | Guest Performer | School of Education Commencement(s) | 2007 – 2011
- Premier Product Endorsements: Dean Markley Strings|Fishman Acoustic Amplification|RockBox Electronics|Sonuus/UK Electronics|Tom Anderson Guitars 2005|ToneRite|Two Rock Amps 2005
- Global Distribution – Marquee, Inc · Japan
Just For Kicks Music · Germany · Abstract Logix · USA 2007-present - Instructor, Musicians Institute, Los Angeles, 2005 -’08
- Creator of ChaoticArtCircus, a San Francisco avant-garde theater. Director, Composer, and Performer in this multi-art extravaganza employing up to 100 performers, admin, & vendors. SF 2000 | MetalFest/LosAngeles 2000 | SF 2001
- Creator and Producer of Musician’s Showcase which has hosted thousands of performers, future signed acts, and world famous guest artists | 100+ showcases — a major contribution to the San Francisco/Bay Area music ecosystem. 1994-2019
- Human Zoo – band. Meteoric rise….opening for Virgin Records Galatic Cowboys, Brian Slagel/Metalblade acts….followed by meteoric fall. The melding of Pantera & Dream Theater. Members-LindseyBoullt TonyCollins MikeMiner BrandonHall XavierJordon. Houston , Tx 1995-96
- MTV opening act performance – Bedrock metalFunk band – Lindsey Boullt | Troy Guillette | Mike Meade opens for Billboard Top 10 Act –‘Cause & Effect’ Tour. Houston Tx, 1994
- Rock & Roll Sports Television – Fall ’93 every Sunday night, Bedrock house band for weekly Houston metro television show.. Hosting NFL, MLB, NBA & Olympic stars, boxing champ Ray Mercer. Houston, Tx 1993
- 1st professional recording session – legendary Profile Records and rap artists Bitch & Fatal T (Profile Records label artists included – Run DMC, Russell Simmons, Poor Righteous Teachers, Jam Master Jay). Among first wave of rap labels to incorporate heavy metal guitar into the genre. Studio (Big 40) was mainstay for the Geto Boys. Houston Tx 3rd Ward, 1992
- Upstage Center, Inc. – employee – stage hand, FoH, onstage tech, A/V, lighting & spot operator. Notable gigs – Rolling Stones, Genesis, Doobie Brothers, Reba McEntire, Jesus Jones, U2, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ELP, Bonham, Weird Al Yankovic, Hank Williams Jr, Crystal Gayle, Skid Row, Pantera, The Cure. Houston, Tx, 1992
- Part of the pivotal NYC Lower Eastside hardcore metal scene From 1988-91, played guitar in bands throughout NYC, evolving into the hardcore band ‘Anti‘. The scene included bands – Prong,White Zombie, Helmet, CopShootCop, Lunachicks. Venues: Wah-Wah Hut, Pyramid, Lismar Lounge, Beirut 1&2, Brooklyn Academy, Queens clubs, Lonestar Cafe, CBGB’s 1988-’91
- Musicians Institute – Honors graduate Los Angeles 1986-87
- UnivTexas/Arlington Music&TheaterMgt Degree | Scholarship | Dean’s List | 1st chair Jazz Orchestra 1981-1984.
