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, Musiqa (Houston, TX), Moody Center for the Arts, the James Turrell Skyspace (“Twilight Epiphany”, 2012), the HYDRA Loudspeaker Orchestra (HUSEAC), Guerilla Opera, and Electric LaTex (Baton Rouge, LA)—and selected for performance at the FSU Biennial Festival for New Music and national conferences for the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS).
Niko studied at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University (M.Mus. Composition); Niko is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in Music Composition and Theory at Brandeis University. Niko has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Brandeis University.
Niko lives and works independently in Cambridge, MA.
