Was born on 27 July 1969 in Frankfurt am Main.
Guitarist, composer.
Autodidact.
His stylistic roots lie in bebop, hardbop.
Early idols are John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Pat Martino, Wes Montgomery.
Today's playing style is oriented to new bop, fusion, blues, wide stylistic flexibility.
Musical career
A tour as "opening act" with the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble at the start of the eighties shot Sagmeister fame.
Tours followed through Southeast Asia and North Africa, lastly West Africa.
Performances at numerous leading festivals in Germany and abroad secured Sagmeister his notch in the international jazz scene (Bombay/Calcutta - here Sagmeister stepped in at Shakti for illness-hit John McLaughlin - New Delhi, Warsaw, Sofia, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart).
Cooperation and recordings with
Billy Cobham, Larry Coryell, Jack DeJohnette, Lyle Mays, Dave Samuels, Albert Mangelsdorff, Wolfgang Dauner, Charlie Mariano, Randy Brecker, Volker Kriegel, Attila Zoller, Miroslav Vitous, Emily Remler, Gerry Brown, Pat Martino.
Projects under own name
Duos with Thomas Heidepriem, Christoph Spendel, Sylvia Droste and Dave Samuels.
Trio with Michael Küttner and Gunnar Plümer.
Quartet with Michael Küttner, Frank Itt and Hendrik Soll.
Much in demand as tutor
at all major jazz workshops in Germany,
teaches at the Occupational College of Music in Dinkelsbühl,
lectures in advanced professional studies in jazz and pop music at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main,
in 1992 published his own teaching video Scale Design.
Has written workshops for the magazine "Gitarre und Bass" since 1995.