About Me

Heather Rivas is a songwriter and pianist/keyboardist born and raised in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA where she studied Performance and Music Business.

Upon graduating Berklee, Heather released her solo EP entitled “Licorice". This debut is the first showcase in her own compositions and how they fuse together the styles of music that influence her.

Heather has also toured and performed with numerous artists. At just the age of 17 she toured with jazz trumpeter Ingrid Jensen through the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Additionally, Heather has played piano and percussion in the 2014 Disneyland All American College Band, and has performed with highly acclaimed trumpeter Wayne Bergeron, and world-renowned bassist John Clayton. She had the opportunity to work closely and record with award winning Latin Grammy record producer Javier Limón and artist Tonina for her debut album “Black Angels” which ended up on Barack Obama’s Favorite Songs of 2018 list. She has become a world traveler and has toured and recorded with various pop artists such as Jacob Banks, Tonina, Emily Kinney and LoveLeo in the U.S. and Europe. Heather has also become a Nord Endorsed Artist.

In addition to performing, Heather has been involved in music education for years. As a graduate TA at CalArts she taught jazz piano lessons and was involved in outreach such as the Community Arts Partnership program, teaching music theory to the youth in the LA area. Recently, she was brought on as a Stanford Jazz Mentor Fellow to teach and mentor students at the Stanford Jazz Workshop.

When she is not touring, she is recording, producing, teaching and writing music in LA. Most recently, she has released her second EP “The Way We Used to Be” which further grounds listeners in her emerging alt-pop sound.