Mboya Nicholson is a respected pianist and composer, sought after by his musical peers to contribute his brand of swinging. Mboya has learned from giants of jazz, studying with jazz giants like Ellis Marsalis, and pianist Peter Martin. And he has performed with titans like trumpeter James Zollar.

From 2007 to the 2010s, Mboya was an arranger for conductor Colin Mendez Morris’s recording projects, done with his recording ensemble, ArsMusica. Currently Mboya leads the Mboya Nicholson trio, the Mboya Nicholson Jazz Orchestra, and teaches jazz piano and a jazz history course he created, at MacEwan University.

Mboya presently has an album out of solo piano , called Melodic Faces (2022). It features music he composed over the last twenty five years. He is currently working on a second album to be released mid 2027.