Stephanie Nilles (she/her)
Piano & Composition
Pianist composer/arranger and singer/songwriter Stephanie Nilles graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music with a BM in classical piano performance. She cut her songwriting and improvising teeth in New York City, then hit the road. She’s since performed all over the United States, Canada, and Europe, including at such esteemed chamber music, folk music, and jazz engagements as Stimmen Festival, Festwochen Gmunden, Calgary Folk Festival, the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, and Ingolstadt Jazz Festival, playing music in points as far west as Skagway, Alaska and as far east as Abu Dhabi. She's scored one movie, two silent films, and one radio drama; she's recorded six albums of original music, as well as one album of solo arrangements of the music of jazz behemoth Charles Mingus; and she's shared the stage with Bobby McFerrin, Jonathan Richmond, Judy Collins, and Buckethead.
Following a thirteen-year touring career (and a decade of living in New Orleans), she’s settled in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville, where she's on staff as piano accompanist at the University of Louisville and ghostwrites mystery novels.