Wales's name is synonymous with dance. Recent Commissions include collaborations with Marina Mascarelle for Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon and Marrugeku for Le Dernier Appel. He has scored several major Sydney Dance Company works in collaboration with artistic director Rafael Bonachela since 2012.

His baroque-meets-electronica soundtrack for 2 One Another saw 100 performances worldwide and was followed by 2 in D Minor,Scattered Rhymes (with Tarik O'Reagan) and the jagged glitch and chilling vocals of Emergence, written in partnership with singer-songstress Sarah Blasko. A knife's edge of light and dark, Ab Intra, his latest production with Bonachela will tour across the UK and Europe in 2020. He has composed eight dance theatre pieces for Sean Parker and Company, including the Helpmann Award nominated AM I, The Yard, This Show is About People and the internationally performed Happy as Larry, Spill and Trollys. Visual artist Lauren Brincat is another of his recurring collaborators. Their newest creations featured at AGNSW and the 2018 Sydney Bienalle.

In 2019 Nick curated and created the soundscapes for the Powerhouse Museum’s retrospective exhibition ‘Step Into Paradise’ which featured the fashion of Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson. 

While Wales's contemporary dance scores are both challenging and abstract, his pop sensibilities are undeniable. Traversing all genres as a founding member of ARIA nominated classical-fusion band CODA, he has also collaborated with Sarah Blasko for a number of years, writing the orchestral arrangements for her 2012 album I Awake and collaborating on Eternal Return and Depth of Field. Wales's undergraduate studies in composition were completed at Sydney University under Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards and Anne Boyd. Nick holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Screen Composition from AFTRS.