ABOUT
BIOGRAPHY
Jessie Rivest is a vocalist, composer, and sound artist whose work spans contemporary, experimental, and interdisciplinary forms. Drawing on a lifetime of singing and a Bachelor of Music from York University, she creates immersive vocal landscapes through looping, improvisation, and contemporary extended techniques—often channeled in response to place, sensory information, or collective atmosphere.
Jessie has performed as a choral singer with a range of standout artists and concerts such as Tanya Tagaq, Free Play, Rönninge, Game of Thrones: Music is Coming, the Canadian premiere of Ēriks Ešenvalds’ Nordic Light Symphony, and the Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Tour. Her ensemble experience has earned international accolades, including medals at the World Choir Games and the Barbershop World Mixed Competition in Germany.
Her compositions have been performed by Pro Coro Canada, The Choral Arts Initiative, Khorikos, and NEO Voice Festival. In 2025, her public sound art exhibition PSOUNDS, commissioned by the City of Kelowna, premiered with an emphasis on listening as a vital skill for navigating change.
Her artistic practice has increasingly expanded beyond performance into facilitation, where the same principles that guide her artistic work; presence, attention, expression, and collective meaning-making, inform workshops and developmental experiences for individuals and groups.
Based in Kelowna, BC, Jessie is a leadership coach, facilitator, and certified practitioner with Oliver Mythodrama and Archetypes at Work ™ since 2023. She blends archetypal psychology, somatic practice, and storytelling to help individuals and small groups access deeper clarity, creativity, and self-trust. Jessie has delivered programs for entrepreneurs and executive teams, guiding people through transitions with tools that are as embodied as they are practical. Her work is rooted in the belief that personal transformation and leadership growth go hand in hand, and that containers for expression and experiential learning hold wisdom the mind alone can't access.