Natalia Rikker is a musicologist, presenter, journalist, and the jazz music commentator in Chelyabinsk.

A good education, presenting skills, a keen understanding of jazz music, and a great musical erudition help Natalia masterfully host concerts of Ural Dixieland Band. Well-known in the music crowd as a bright presenter, she also collaborates with Chelyabinsk jazz bands (such as the big band of Meritorious Artist of Russia Stanislav Berezhnov, a Latino band Shiko, and others), the Chelyabinsk Symphonic Orchestra “Classica”, the Folk Dance Ensemble "Ural", and soloists of the Chelyabinsk Philharmonia. Her presenting is marked by wit, ease, and extempore.

Natalia is a member of the organizing committee and presenter at the Chelyabinsk International Jazz Festival What an amazing world!. Since 2010, she has hosted regular themed concerts of contemporary music in collaboration with the Pop-Jazz Studio of the Railway Palace of Culture. Since 2013, she has been the organizer and presenter at the International Music Festival "Spring Beat". Since 2014, she has been a presenter at the international music festival Denis Matsuev Presents ..., the Regional Festival of Arts, etc.

Committed to popularize Chelyabinsk musical art, Natalia has worked with Chelyabinsk radio stations, authoring and hosting music programs, including popular Jazz Time, which had been on air every week for 4 years. She has also collaborated with TV channel "Culture South Urals". She has written many articles about musical life in Chelyabinsk for local and national journals, including online magazine Polny Jazz. She took part in the creation of encyclopedic reference book Jazz in Russia, edited by the famous Russian jazz theorist of Vladimir Feiertag.

Natalia teaches the history of popular music styles at the Tchaikovsky South Ural State Institute of Arts.