Nikki Iles

b. 16 Might 1963, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, Britain. While still at principal school, Iles performed harmonica and clarinet with age 11 she gained a Junior Exhibitioner’s Scholarship or grant towards the Royal Academy of Music where she examined piano and clarinet. She also became a member of the Bedfordshire Youngsters Jazz Orchestra, of which period she chose upon the piano as her primary device. In 1981, she visited the Leeds University of Music and on graduating 3 years afterwards she resolved in Yorkshire. She became a member of the group Emanon, led by trumpeter Richard Iles, to whom she was wedded at that time, and it had been right here that she acquired the opportunity to execute her very own compositions. Also within this music group had been guitarist Mike Walker and saxophonist Iain Dixon and everything were members from the Innovative Jazz Orchestra. This resulted in organizations with Anthony Braxton, Mike Gibbs, Kenny Wheeler among others. Iles also used several London-based rings including those led by Steve Argüelles, Mick Hutton, and in duo with Stan Sulzmann. Iles commuted often between London as well as the north of Britain, getting an in-demand accompanist to touring English and American music artists, included in this Iain Ballamy, Teddy Edwards, Artwork Farmer, Scott Hamilton, Peter Ruler, Dick Morrissey and Jim Mullen. In 1996, Iles received the John Dankworth Unique Award in the BT English Jazz Honours and during the period of the next couple of years documented in duo with Martin Speake (The Tan Tien), and Tina Might (Switch Of Sky). The limitless commuting found an abrupt quit one night time when, following a gig, Iles experienced a serious car crash. This prompted your choice to create London her foundation. Iles experienced taught at numerous important organizations, including York University or college, Leeds University of Music, the Guildhall College of Music, and she right now required a post like a older lecturer at Middlesex School. She’s also trained in Bulgaria, Netherlands, France and Finland, with summer academic institutions in Britain, France and Wales. Among her commissioned compositions have already been the ‘Printmakers Suite’ for the Innovative Jazz Orchestra, ‘In All My Holy Hill’, with poet Roger Garfitt, for New Perspectives, and in 1999 the London Sinfonietta Ellington Festivities. Furthermore to executing, composing and teaching, Iles is a person in a team on the Associated Board from the Royal Academic institutions of Music involved in the introduction of a new group of graded examinations for jazz horns that premiered in June 2003. Among her executing credits in the past due 90s and early 00s have already been dates, travels and recordings with Julian Argüelles, an ideal Houseplants, Wheeler and Sulzmann, Tony Coe, Tag Lockheart, Dick Walter, Geoff Simkins, as well as the Anglo-Canadian Task. Enthusiastic and experienced, technically guaranteed and innovative, by the first 00s Iles experienced become a significant presence on the united kingdom jazz scene.