Rhys Tivey

Rhys Tivey grew up on a small horse farm in rural upstate New York to visual artists Hap and Liza Tivey. As a teenage trumpeter, he played jazz and orchestral music, performing in Carnegie Hall, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic with Albany ESYO. After graduating from NYU for jazz trumpet, he dove into developing his sound as a vocalist, songwriter, and producer, taking inspiration from earlier days of musical influence (an eclectic mix of Phil Collins, Jim Morrison, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, A Tribe Called Quest, and Miles Davis), while incorporating jazz and symphonic elements absorbed during his trumpet studies. After several years of performing in LA and NYC and recording original songs with Mike Haldeman (Moses Sumney), Carter Lee (The Marias), Dillon Treacy + Jessie Bielenberg (Kandace Springs, Kiah Victoria), grammy nominated engineer Mike Tierney, and mastering engineer Alex DeTurk (D'Angelo, David Bowie), Rhys will be releasing his debut album Unsteady in the spring of 2020. Parts of the album were written and recorded while he was working as a farm apprentice in upstate NY, parts created while acting in a bizarre underground theater in Berlin, and all finished in Brooklyn at Mike Tierney's Shiny Things Studio.