
POP Symposium
Tess Roby
Tess Roby is an artist based in Montreal who runs the independent record label SSURROUNDSS. She has released two albums, “Beacon” (2018) and “Ideas of Space” (2022), and has collaborated with acclaimed artists such as Khotin, Seb Wildblood, Austra, and Ouri. She is a member of the Montreal-based synth-pop trio Dawn to Dawn and has recently released music under the name Deep Breath. In 2024, Tess was selected as artist-in-residence at Canada’s National Music Centre and participated in the Keychange program—a global movement working toward gender equality in the music industry. She is currently working on her third full-length studio album.