Nia grew up in North Wales where singing and choral music played a central part in her musical upbringing. After reading music at Robinson College, Cambridge, she won a full scholarship to study with Simon Halsey on his collaborative Master’s course between the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the University of Birmingham, where she graduated with distinction. She is also a qualified teacher.

Nia has served at Gloucester Cathedral since 2014, firstly as the music department’s very first Singing Development Leader, and presently as Assistant Conductor. Through her role, she has revitalised the Cathedral Junior Choir, significantly growing the membership, and has coached over 3,500 school children to sing as part of the Cathedral’s Junior Voices Project. She was the inaugural Conductor of the Girl Choristers, following the historic admission of girls to the Cathedral Choir in November 2016 – a milestone of which she is particularly proud. As part of her role at Gloucester, Nia has also performed at the Three Choir’s Festival, including conducting a performance of Carl Davis’s The Last Train to Tomorrow, commemorating the Kindertransport in 2019; and the contemporary opera, The Happy Princess in 2023.

Nia has conducted the symphonic chorus of the CBSO, and has also served as an Associate Director of the London Symphony Chorus. She has been privileged to work alongside several celebrated conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Marc Albrecht, Sir Andrew Davis, Mark Wigglesworth and Adrian Partington.

Nia is regularly involved in youth and educational ventures. She has conducted the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in education projects, including conducting a series of concerts about the Symphony Orchestra, broadcast on the Welsh children’s television network, CYW on S4C, as well as a televised Christmas special. She has also been involved in special ventures with BBC NOW, including conducting the orchestra in a programme for BBC Radio Cymru about new orchestral arrangements of 'Plygain' carols.

Nia was conductor of the National Youth Choir of Wales in 2015, and directed the choir on tour in Argentina as part of the monumental Patagonia 150 celebrations. She also directed the National Youth Training Choir of Wales in 2016. She also conducted the South West Contingent of the Children in Need Choir in 2015.

Nia enjoys writing music for the young people with whom she works. She has written a sung-through musical Nativity play, Glory to God, for the Cathedral Junior Choir, which has also been performed by two local primary schools. She has published other liturgical compositions with Chichester Music Press.

Nia currently works as a Producer in Religion and Ethics at the BBC, producing content for BBC Radio Wales and Radio 4.