Name Nikki Iles Albums Treasure Trove | Education Royal Academy of Music | |
Role Composer · nikkiiles.co.uk Similar People Tina May, Stan Sulzmann, Mark Lockheart, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler |
ABRSM 2019 - 2020 Piano Exam Grade 3 C:3 (Nikki Iles, born 1963 English composer) Blues in the Attic
Nikki Iles (born 16 May 1963) is an English jazz composer and musician, playing piano and accordion.
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- ABRSM 2019 2020 Piano Exam Grade 3 C3 Nikki Iles born 1963 English composer Blues in the Attic
- Discography
- Songs
- References
Iles was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, her parents both musicians (her father a drummer and her mother a pianist). She started her musical education at primary school, where she learnt to play the harmonica and the clarinet, and at eleven years old she won a junior exhibition at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied clarinet and piano (1974–1981). She became a member of the Bedfordshire Youth Jazz Orchestra. As a result of her increasing involvement with jazz, she went on to the Leeds College of Music to study alto saxophone and piano (1981–1984).
She joined former husband Richard Iles' group Emanon (R. Iles trumpet, Mike Walker guitar, Iain Dixon saxophone). The members were also all founder members of the Creative Jazz Orchestra, alongside Vince Mendoza, Anthony Braxton, Mike Gibbs, Kenny Wheeler and Mark Anthony Turnage. Iles also began playing with several London-based bands, such as Steve Arguelles' group, Mick Hutton's Straight Face, Stan Sulzmann's quartet, and Tina May.
Iles won the 1996 John Dankworth Special Award at the BT Jazz Festival.
Iles is senior lecturer at Middlesex University, and has taught at the University of York, Leeds College of Music, the Guildhall School of Music, and in Bulgaria, Holland, France, and Finland. She also runs training workshops for the Associated Board (Jazz syllabus and is a tutor for the National Youth Jazz Collective.
Discography
Songs
Change of Sky
Hush
You Must Believe in Spring
The Glide
Everybody's Song but My Own
Meditations
Nardis
Hi Steve
The Incense of Colour
In Your Own Sweet Way
For Jan
A Timeless Place
Still We Dream
Black Coffee
On the Dunes
Come Rain or Come Shine
My One and Only Love
I Do It for Your Love
The Touch of Your Lips
More Than You Know
Since We Met
Little Dog Who Loves the Wood
Story of a Story
Irish Missed
Midnight
Fly's Dilemma
Bop People
Whaley Whaley
The Aerialist
The Vain Desire
Very Early
November Girl