AJ Nilles is a violist and producer born in Chicago and based in Berlin. He started playing viola at a very young age and attended the Juilliard School in New York, receiving a Bachelor of Music in 2011. Shortly after he moved to California to join the San Diego Symphony. In 2015 AJ moved to Berlin to join the Berlin Philharmonic as a tutti violist. Since his move to Germany, he started releasing music of his own which he describes as “electro-acoustic Artpop” under the moniker “Ayjay Nils”.