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.
\nCurrently 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\u2014a fusion of Ursula\u2019s bands The Void Quintet, Ursula\u2019s solo Dark-Pop project K.CIT\u2014with which she released the conceptalbum \u201cWelcome To Dark Matter,\u201d featuring many different musical facets, on IAN Records (Munich) in September 2023. Currently she\u2019s writing for the next concept album for this band, planned to be released in 2027.
\nIn her Dark-Pop project, K.CIT, Ursula worked intensively with Philipp Maier and Thomas Gieferl on the production of their brand-new debut album \u201cTIC.K TOCK,\u201d funded by the Austrian Music Fund, which was released in February 2026.<\/p>\n
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. \ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e<\/p>\n
Ursula also arranges and composes for numerous other projects across various
\ngenres, making her a highly active and successful composer and arranger. She
\narranges 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.
\nUrsula is involved in many other projects and bands as a session musician, such as
\nmusical 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 \u201cHier spielt die Musik\u201d 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 Donaub\u00fchne Tulln alongside Erich Buchebner (aka Ricky Gold), where she shares the stage with the greats of the Austrian Austropop scene.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cOutstanding Performance.\u201d In addition, Ursula Reicher received Downbeat Awards in 2020, 2021, and 2022 in the categories \u201cOutstanding Composition\u201d and \u201cEngineered Studio Recording.\u201d
\nUrsula Reicher has been honored with numerous awards: Finalist \u201cJazzCompGraz,\u201d \u201cKarel-Krautgartner\u201d Composition Competition in Prague, \u201cEuropean Composers Project\u201d SubwayJazz Orchestra in Cologne, City of Graz Recognition Award, recipient of the BMBWF Arts\/Culture Work Grant, and many more.<\/p>\n
In 2015, she released her debut CD, *Sequences of Scenes*, with her former
\nband Recursion. Ursula has also worked as a vocal coach and teaches songwriting courses.
\nIn 2012, she was among the winners of the Marianne Mendt Jazz Festival, where she
\nparticipated as a singer. Numerous workshops, including composition workshops with John
\nHollenbeck, Jim McKneely, J\u00f6rg-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
\nbroadened the young composer and musician\u2019s horizons.
\nAs a singer with the Massive Beats Crew, she was a finalist in the 2015 ORF show
\n\u201cGro\u00dfe Chance der Ch\u00f6re.\u201d With Chilli Da Mur, she has performed numerous concerts both at home and abroad and released the album \u201cAlles Liebe.\u201d
\nUrsula has also contributed to numerous CD productions with artists such as Dave McKendry,
\nEmiliano Sampaio Mereneu Project, EAV, Seiler und Speer, to name just a few.
\nMusical Role Models\/Influences:
\nThe specific influences in Ursula\u2019s music come from various genres and
\nstyles: She has been significantly influenced by artists and bands such as Bob
\nBrookmeyer, Gil Evans, Carla Bley, Radiohead, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Joni
\nMitchell, Bessie Smith, John Coltrane, Alexander N. Scriabin, F. Chopin, S. Rachmaninoff,
\nI. Stravinsky, Brad Mehldau, Oscar Peterson, Brian Blade, Death Cab for Cutie, Feist,
\nNirvana, Frank Sinatra, Amy Winehouse, Lauren Hill, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Kenny
\nWheeler, Bon Iver, Janis Joplin, Foo Fighters, and many more.
\nProgressive music from genres such as punk, metal, and alternative rock has
\nparticularly influenced them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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