Niko was a Fromm Foundation Composer Fellow at the 2023 Composers Conference, a Composer Fellow at Yarn/Wire Institute (2021) and Etchings Festival (Auvillar, 2018), and a resident community musician at St. John’s in San Francisco (2021-22). Niko’s work with musicians includes compositions for KOE, the Composers Conference, Yarn/Wire, ekmeles, Guerilla Opera, Musiqa, the Shepherd Symphony Orchestra, the Arditti Quartet, Nunc, Ecce, and the Illinois Modern Ensemble.
Niko is a Ph.D. Candidate in Music Composition and Theory at Brandeis University, and a teaching fellow in analog synthesis in the Harvard University Studio for Electro-Acoustic Composition.