Who is Nicola Rouse? 

Nicola was born in New Zealand and began playing piano when she was big enough to climb onto her mother's piano stool. She first played on the Auckland music scene when she was in her early twenties in local jazz bars. ​When Nicola turned 24 she left New Zealand and moved to Australia to begin a journey playing in Sydney, Malaysia, Cambodia, Shanghai, Washington DC, Singapore and Chicago, finally to return home to New Zealand in 2007.