Nikki Yeoh

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Nikki Yeoh
Born (1973-05-24) 24 May 1973 (age 52)
London, England
GenresJazz
Occupations
  • Pianist
  • composer
  • educator
InstrumentKeyboards

Nikki Yeoh (born 24 May 1973) is a British jazz pianist who has worked with Courtney Pine, Cleveland Watkiss, Steve Williamson, Chante Moore, The Roots and Neneh Cherry. Born in London, Yeoh is of mixed race origin, having a father from Malaysia and a British mother. Some of her first music teachers were Don Rendell and Ian Carr. [1]

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Yeoh has a long-standing collaboration with drummer Mark Mondesir and his bassist brother, Michael Mondesir in the jazz trio Infinitum. [2] [3] [4] Yeoh was the musical director for the finalists of the BBC Young Jazz Musician 2020. [5]

In 2022, she was appointed at MEI (Music Education Islington) and Guildhall as the Lead for Jazz, Improvisation and Pop. [6]

Awards and honors

Yeoh won The Independent award for Best Jazz Musician of the Year in 1996 and in 1999 was a semi-finalist at the piano competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival. [7] She won Jazz FM Instrumentalist of the Year in 2017. [8]

Discography

References

  1. ↑ "Nikki Yeoh". Thsh.co.uk. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  2. ↑ "Nikki Yeoh and Infinitum". The guardian. 18 January 2002. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "YouTube: Nikki Yeoh Live at Ronnie Scott's". YouTube . Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
  4. ↑ "Cyrus Chestnut/Nikki Yeoh review – playful piano trio stars set the bar high". TheGuardian.com . 16 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "BBC Young Jazz Musician returns in 2020 to celebrate the wealth of young talent in UK jazz". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "British Jazz Pianist Nikki Yeoh joins Music Education Islington".
  7. ↑ Carr, Ian; Digby Fairweather; Brian Priestley (1995). Jazz: The Rough Guide . The Rough Guides. pp.  711–712. ISBN   1-85828-137-7.
  8. ↑ "Music heavyweights honoured at the 2017 Jazz FM Awards". Planetradio.co.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  9. ↑ "Nikki Yeoh: Solo Gemini review – this gifted pianist's solo set was worth the wait". The Guardian . 16 June 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
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