Niko’s practice pursues a musical, humanistic, and integrative approach to sound and technology. Niko performs and improvises with acoustic, digital, analog, electro-mechanical, and hybrid instruments.
Niko’s work has been presented with the Composers Conference (AFMI), the Yarn/Wire International Institute, the Etchings Festival (VCCA France), the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Moody Center for the Arts, the James Turrell Skyspace (“Twilight Epiphany”, 2012), the HYDRA Loudspeaker Orchestra, Guerilla Opera, Musiqa, and Electric LaTex—and selected for performance at the FSU Biennial Festival for New Music and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS).
Niko completed degrees in composition-theory from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and composition from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University; Niko is a doctoral candidate (ABD) at Brandeis University. Niko was on the teaching staff at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
Niko lives and works independently in Cambridge, MA.