thumb|right|260px|Aarhus (Denmark 2022) <br /> Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson
Nikki Anne Iles (née Burnham; born 16 May 1963) is a British jazz composer, pianist and educator.
Early life
Iles was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on 16 May 1963. She started her musical education at primary school, where she learnt to play the harmonica and the clarinet, and at eleven years old she won a junior exhibition at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied clarinet and piano She became a member of the Bedfordshire Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Iles was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to music.
In 2025 Iles was announced as the new principal conductor of Hamburg's NDR Bigband.
Discography
As leader/co-leader
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!Title
!Label
!Notes
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|2023
|Face to Face
|Edition Records
|With :de:NDR Bigband
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|2015
|Westerly
|Basho
|As The Printmakers; with Mike Walker (electric guitar), Mark Lockheart (saxes), Steve Watts (bass), James Maddren (drums), Norma Winstone (vocals)
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|2012
|Hush
|Basho
|Trio, with Rufus Reid (bass), Jeff Williams (drums)
|-
|2002
|Everything I Love
|Basho
|Trio, with Duncan Hopkins (bass), Anthony Michelli (drums)
|-
|1998?
|Snap
|RFM
|As Foolish Hearts (Iles, Steve Berry, Paul Clarvis, and Anthony Kerr)
|-
|1997?
|Change of Sky
|33Jazz
|Duo, co-led with Tina May (vocals)
|-
|1997
|The Tan Tien
|FMR
|with Martin Speake
|}
As sidewoman
With Anthony Braxton
- Composition No. 175 / Composition No. 126: Trillium Dialogues M (Leo, 1994)
With Mike Gibbs
- By the Way (Ah Um, 1993)
With Ingrid Laubrock
- Some Times (Candid, 1998)