Ursula Reicher
studied jazz composition and arranging (with Ed Partyka) as well as music education at the KUG in Graz and German at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. The versatile singer, composer, arranger and pianist works intensively on her main projects The Globular Cluster, The Void-Quintet and K.CIT. With The Globular Cluster, she devotes herself intensively to composition and arrangement, especially for big band music. With the chamber music crossover ensemble The Void-Quintet, she released the debut album Globular Cluster in 2019. In 2021 she was arranger for the concert programme of the UMO Jazz Orchestra in Helsinki; 2021-2022 she is a scholarship holder of the Austrian Working Scholarship for Arts and Culture. Reicher was, among others, a finalist of the Jazz Comp Graz 2017, the Karel Krautgartner Big Band Competition 2021 in Prague and winner and finalist of the European Composers Project 2021 in Cologne; in 2021 she received the City of Graz Appreciation Award; in 2022 she was awarded the Downbeat Award in the category "Outstanding Composition", which The Void-Quintet had also received in 2019, 2020 and 2021.