About

Born in February 1992 in southeastern Austria (Styria), multi-instrumentalist [singer, pianist, and bassist], composer & arranger, musical director, Ursula Reicher has already drawn attention for her versatility in a wide range of genre-spanning projects.
Currently living in Vienna, in her artistic work, she is on the one hand deeply dedicated to composing and arranging for orchestral, Big Band music. Not least for this reason, she is constantly working on various projects, including her Jazz Orchestra project The Globular Cluster—a fusion of Ursula’s bands The Void Quintet, Ursula’s solo Dark-Pop project K.CIT—with which she released the conceptalbum “Welcome To Dark Matter,” featuring many different musical facets, on IAN Records (Munich) in September 2023. Currently she’s writing for the next concept album for this band, planned to be released in 2027.
In her Dark-Pop project, K.CIT, Ursula worked intensively with Philipp Maier and Thomas Gieferl on the production of their brand-new debut album “TIC.K TOCK,” funded by the Austrian Music Fund, which was released in February 2026.

Ursula studied jazz composition and arranging in Graz under Ed Partyka and Johannes Berauer, as well as music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and German language at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, graduating with honors. ︎︎︎

Ursula also arranges and composes for numerous other projects across various
genres, making her a highly active and successful composer and arranger. She
arranges regularly for the mighty Metropole Orkest in the Netherlands, arranged for the forte-Orchester Vorarlberg, the Subway Jazz Orchestra Cologne, the UMO-Jazz Orchestra Helsinki, the NDR Big Band, the Carinthian State Youth Choir, and for numerous other ensembles and bands, such as the Austro-pop greats Aut Of Orda, Pizzera & Jaus, Seiler & Speer, JOSH, Ina Regen, and many more.
Ursula is involved in many other projects and bands as a session musician, such as
musical director and pianist for Ina Regen, vocalist for Streetview Dixie Club, backing vocals/piano for Anja Om Plus, former pianist for Seiler & Speer, former bassist for AVEC, former bassist for Petrol Girls, and many more. She also works as a musical director on various projects, such as for Ina Regen, and for the show band of the ORF show “Hier spielt die Musik” in 2023, where she wrote all the musical arrangements and performed as a pianist. In addition, in 2024 and 2025 and again in 2026, she workes as musical director and musician at the Donaubühne Tulln alongside Erich Buchebner (aka Ricky Gold), where she shares the stage with the greats of the Austrian Austropop scene.

In 2019, she released her debut album *Globular Cluster* on CD and vinyl with her chamber music group, The Void-Quintet. In 2019 and 2020, The Void-Quintet was honored with a Downbeat Award for “Outstanding Performance.” In addition, Ursula Reicher received Downbeat Awards in 2020, 2021, and 2022 in the categories “Outstanding Composition” and “Engineered Studio Recording.”
Ursula Reicher has been honored with numerous awards: Finalist “JazzCompGraz,” “Karel-Krautgartner” Composition Competition in Prague, “European Composers Project” SubwayJazz Orchestra in Cologne, City of Graz Recognition Award, recipient of the BMBWF Arts/Culture Work Grant, and many more.

In 2015, she released her debut CD, *Sequences of Scenes*, with her former
band Recursion. Ursula has also worked as a vocal coach and teaches songwriting courses.
In 2012, she was among the winners of the Marianne Mendt Jazz Festival, where she
participated as a singer. Numerous workshops, including composition workshops with John
Hollenbeck, Jim McKneely, Jörg-Achim Keller, and Carla Bley, as well as vocal workshops such as the Estill Vocal Course Level One, Bervokal in Berlin, a workshop with Sheila Jordan and Jay Clayton, attendance at the Theaterakademie Graz, as well as acting lessons with Dunja Tot
broadened the young composer and musician’s horizons.
As a singer with the Massive Beats Crew, she was a finalist in the 2015 ORF show
“Große Chance der Chöre.” With Chilli Da Mur, she has performed numerous concerts both at home and abroad and released the album “Alles Liebe.”
Ursula has also contributed to numerous CD productions with artists such as Dave McKendry,
Emiliano Sampaio Mereneu Project, EAV, Seiler und Speer, to name just a few.
Musical Role Models/Influences:
The specific influences in Ursula’s music come from various genres and
styles: She has been significantly influenced by artists and bands such as Bob
Brookmeyer, Gil Evans, Carla Bley, Radiohead, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Joni
Mitchell, Bessie Smith, John Coltrane, Alexander N. Scriabin, F. Chopin, S. Rachmaninoff,
I. Stravinsky, Brad Mehldau, Oscar Peterson, Brian Blade, Death Cab for Cutie, Feist,
Nirvana, Frank Sinatra, Amy Winehouse, Lauren Hill, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Kenny
Wheeler, Bon Iver, Janis Joplin, Foo Fighters, and many more.
Progressive music from genres such as punk, metal, and alternative rock has
particularly influenced them.