History
FESTIVALS/Performances
Outpost Performing Art Center, NM
SITE-Santa Fe Jazz Collective, NM
Tribute to Basquait with Danny Simmons & Wordsmith, Brooklyn, NY
Tribute to Paul McCartney - City Winery, Carnegie Hall, NYC
Tribute to Curtis Mayfield - BRC Orchestra
Tribute to Amiri Baraka with Danny Simmons & Wordsmith
The Billie Summerstage Outdoor Jazz Series
Greater Hartford Jazz Festival
Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz, 2021
Schomberg Women’s Jazz Festival, 2020
Springfield Jazz & Root Festival 2019, 2020
Hudson River Ampitheater Summer 2019
International African Arts Festival
Sugar Hill Music Festival
Chicago String Summit (2018)
Radiance 4 "Fukishima Rise" (2017)
Greenpoint Arts Festival 2016
Emil Paolucci Summer Sounds 2016
Coltrane Day Music Festival 2016
Jazzy Jazz Festival 2015
Radiance 3 "DJs, Strings & New Sounds" (2015)
Vision Festival 19
Radiance 2 "A Presentation to Young Artist" (2014)
Radiance 2013
Many Colors of A Woman (2012)- Nicki Mathis
Son D’Hiver, 2008 (France) Cooper-More Project
Pepsi Smash Festival, 2007 (USA) Kanye West
Sno-Core Tour USA with Spearhead/Michael Franti, Euro-tour with Saul Williams
DANCE
Peggy Cho Dance/Dyane Harvey Salaam-NYC
Leslie Parker- Call To Remember, USA Tour
The GEM.in.I Virtual Event : A Work In Process
g1HOST-Nia Love Dance Co, Gibney Dance Center, NYC
Leslie Parker- Call To Remember, Crystal, Smoke & Spirit, Momentum Dance Festival, Minn.
Germaul Barnes-Veiwsic Dance Co, Restoration Dance Academy, BAAD,NYC.
Sekou McMiller Dance-Firey Strings Company, Hostos College, Bronx, NY.
Jazz Intensive Program 2016-2017 Joffrey Ballet School NYC
Threads Dance Company-2013-"Malignant" by Karen Charles, score by N. Workman
Joffrey Ballet-2011-15 choreographer Marlies Yearby, music by N. Workman
Walls- 2011 Work by Nioka Workman, Hui Cox-guitar, choreographer Leslie Parker
Errol Grimes Dance Co. at City Center – Score for cello, percussion and voice in 2007
Nioka Workman Jazz & Dance Company- Workshops in Philadelphia in 2006
THEATER
Once Upon A One More Time- Broadway, Marquis Theater, NYC (string section)
Extraordinary Measures- Abington Theater, NYC (cello, vocals)
Curvy Widow-George Street Playhouse (piano,percussion, cello)
Sweet Charity-Off Broadway (piano, dm, reeds,bs,gt,solo cello) Reveiw: Scene On Stage by Phillip Dorian
Say Her Name- Intermedia Arts, Minn., solo cello
Arturo Padilla Presents, NYC (pn, perc, cello)
Marty Pottenger's #PhillySavesEarth,Painted Bride, Pa, solo cello
Mingus Takes (By Aisha Rahman) A Reading directed by Talvin Wilkes -solo cello
Goree Crossing by Paul Carter Harrison, NYC, solo cello
HRII by Nioka Workman, Marcus Dargan director (NuAfrikan Theater Co.)
The Art of Memory- Kitty Brazelton, NYC (large ensemble)
The Escape Artist- John Kelly (2010-2013) (voice, piano,vln, cello)
Venus Project -Public Theater, NYC. -solo cello
Running Man by Diedre Murray, American Music Theater
Harlem Duet by Janet Sears, Blue Heron Theater, NYC, cello & bass
COMMISSIONS
South Arts Jazz Tours- Firey String Sistas
Neighborhood Concerts- Jazz Foundation of America, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts
The g.HEM.In.I, Arts Fund, supported,in part,by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts
Eucalytus & Oceans, Springfield , Mass.
American Composer's Forum/Live Music for Dance Threads Dance Co./Karen Charles
Joffrey Ballet Jazz, Symphony Space
Marlies Yearby’s Woomen, UMass, Kuumble Theater
Echoing Women/Jennifer Chin, Joyce Theater
Zhingo/Alvin Ailey II/MWProdNYC
AWARDS
Bessie Award 2020- Musical Composition/Sound Design, g1(HOST) lostatsea
TELEVISION
Saturday Night Live-w/Sojourner & India Arie Oxygen
Chris Rock Show –w/Spoken-Word Performance Artists, Saul Williams
Good Morning America – w/Kanye West
Canal + France
RECORDINGS
Bird Calls- (Verve Records), 2020 (Video)
Betty La Vette- (Verve Records), 2019, 2020
Firey String Sistas : "That's What She Said" (Indie)
Mod Squad NYC: "State of The Union" (Indie)
FSCO SongBook 1: The Blues Series (Indie)
Iron Blossoms- Hui Cox/Nioka Workman Project (Indie)
Acoustic Soul - India Arie (Motown)
Better Days - Joe (Jive Records)
Education
52 Studio Arts-Co Director
Music For The People, NYC - Co director
Project Brilliance: Firey String Sistas
Union Affiliations
ASCAP
Harry Fox
SAG AFTRA
Local 802
Film Musicians Secondary Market Fund
Sound Exchange
Maestra Music
MUSE
What We Do LLC-Co Director