EDUCATION 

     Alongside Nikki's performance schedule she has developed a parallel career as a widely respected teacher - recently being nominated for the JAZZ EDUCATION AWARD at the 2007 and 2009 PARLIAMENTARY JAZZ AWARDS.
     She has acted as a tutor at numerous workshops and Summer Schools around the world, as well as maintaining active links with most of the London music colleges.

PRESENT POSTS:

Middlesex University, London - Senior Lecturer Jazz Programme (1998- )

The Royal Academy of Music, London – Piano and ensemble coach (2000 - )

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama  Piano Professor (1998- )

York University - Visiting jazz piano teacher (2003- )

York University - Ensemble in Residence - Julian Arguelles Octet (2004-2010)

Trinity Laban – Visiting ensemble coaching (2005 - )

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

Leeds College of Music - Part time Senior Lecturer (1991 - 98)

Bretton Hall College, Leeds University - Part time jazz piano teacher (1991 - 96)

York University - Part time jazz piano teacher (1994 - 98)

Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester - Visiting Lecturer/ performer (2001 and 2009)

Trinity College, London - Part time jazz piano teacher (2002-2005)

SELECTED FREELANCE WORK:

Glamorgan University Jazz Summer School (1993 - 2007)

The Music Institute, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - Visiting Lecturer (1996)

Music Conservatoire, Jyvaskyla, Finland - Visiting Lecturer (1997)

Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM), London. Commissioning Editor, Editor and Creative Consultant for the Jazz Syllabus – Horns, Flute and Piano, Grades 1 to 5. Now developing Grades 6-8  in the same capacity. Also involved as a Composer, Arranger and Performer.

The Mediterranean Jazz Summer School, Roujan, France (1995-2005)

Burnley Jazz Summer School, Burnley (2000-2008)

Perth, Woolongong and Melbourne, Australia - Three four-day courses training teachers, set up by the Professional Development Department of the ABRSM. (2005)

Escuela de Musica Seminario de Jazz, La Curuna, Spain (2004-2010)

Pete Churchill’s Choral Project, Roujan, France (2005-2010)

The Loire Vocal Jazz Summer School, France (2006)

Global Music Foundation Vocal Jazz Summer school, Certaldo, Italy  (2007-2009)

Trinity College of Music, London, Jazz Summer School (2007-2010)

Renga (contemporary ensemble from the London Philharmonic Orchestra) Leading Improvisation Workshops with Rufus Ried and Tim Garland  (2006 -2010)
Featured composer with Renga with Kenny Wheeler,Tim Garland, Stan Sulzmann (2007-2010)

International Association of Jazz Educators, Performer – Long Beach, California (2002), and Toronto (2008)

Leading regional workshops as part of the National Youth Jazz Collective,teaching young musicians as well as training teachers (2008-2010)

Presenting and mentoring as part of the National Festival for Music for Youth (The AdrianBoult Hall, Birmingham, 2009)

Tutor Cheathams School of Music, Manchester International Piano Summer School  (2010)

EXAMINING:
 
1997 - 2000 External Examiner - Royal Scottish Academy

1998 - 1999 External Examiner - Guildhall School of Music and                  Drama

2006 -  2008 External Examiner (piano) - Trinity College of Music

2007             External Examiner - Exeter University

2008 – 2011  External Examiner – Birmingham Conservatoire

EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS:

"Noodlin'" Featured in "JAZZ WORKS" for Octet Ensemble (ABRSM
Publishing)

Numerous pieces in the Jazz Syllabus for Piano and Horns at all grades (ABRSM Publishing)

"Willow" and "While the cats away” Featured in "FINGERPRINTS" - 19 easy contemporary pieces for piano (Faber Music).

“Desert Dance” Featured in “FINGERPRINTS” - easy contemporary pieces for Alto sax and piano (Faber Music).

“The Dance of the Snow Queen” Featured in “FINGERPRINTS” - easy contemporary pieces for flute and piano (Faber Music).

“The Wishing Gate” in “FINGERPRINTS” - easy contemporary pieces for cello and piano (Faber Music)

“The Gambler”  Featured in “CONTEMPORARY PIANO DUETS - for four hands” (Oxford University Press)

“ Jazz on a Winters Night “  A selection of 12 arrangements for piano of Christmas music including classics sung by Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole,but also some english carols such as “In The Bleak Mid Winter” and Peter Warlock’s “Balulalow”  (Oxford University Press)