Nick Freer began playing guitar in 1990 and has been a professional guitarist for eleven years. Throughout that time, Nick has performed at numerous local festivals including the Williamstown Jazz Festival, Apollo Bay Folk Festival, Frankston International Guitar Festival, Port Fairy Festival, St Kilda Festival, Mornington Festival, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, International Italian Jazz Festival, and The Boite Winter Festival.

Nick Freer has also played at many local clubs, including Manchester Lane, Dizzys Jazz Club, The Vineyard, The Night Cat and Bennents Lane. He has also played at several international clubs of note including The Bflat (Berlin), The York Schlossen (Berlin), Brown Jazz Bar (HK), Visage Free (HK) and the Hong Kong Forum. Nick and his own trio featured at the “Jazz Club” (HK), “Inter Jazz Club” (Macau), and “Elles Club” (Guangzhou China).

Internationally, Nick has performed through Germany with the Marinucci Trio(1999), Hong Kong with the Toby Mac Quartet (2000), Hong Kong and Macau with the Julie O Hara Quintet (2001) and the Anton Delleca Trio (2001) Hong Kong and China with his own trio (2001), China with Martin Breeze Trio (2002) and Thailand with Avatar (2005).

Nick has played for former U.S. president Bill Clinton (Crown Casino), Rupert Murdoch (Hong Kong) and Kerry Packer (Crown Casino). In 2004 Nick completed Post Graduate studies in Music Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts graduating with honours.

Nick can be seen performing around Melbourne with Julie O Hara, Peter Knight, The Orlando Trio, GoneBanda, Bossa Nova Duo, Avatar and The Marinucci Trio/Quartet.