BIOGRAPHY

   Jazz pianist Mboya NIcholson has spent over 25 years composing and performing. He has enjoyed having audience with folks from Japan to Guadeloupe and in between, has had the pleasure of playing for all manner of varied faces in all manner of varied spaces. 

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    During the 2010's, Mboya lived in  Toronto where he taught piano and wrote string quartet arrangements for projects headed by conductor Colin Mendez Morris that were for opera singers, Mark S. Doss and Ernesto Ramirez. And since residing back in his hometown Edmonton, Canada, he leads  a quartet and a small jazz orchestra, and has accompanied jazz greats like trumpeter James Zollar. 

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Currently, Mboya resides in Edmonton, Canada, where he is an instructor at MacEwan University, teaching jazz piano and a course he developed, that focuses on early jazz history with cultural context and the impact of the music on society included in  the narratives.