Tessa Balaz
Balaz Media
Tessa Balaz is multi-disciplinary artist from Sudbury, ON. While attending Laurentian University for Music she played cello in the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra as well as acting and performing in musicals with YES Theatre (HAIR, Rent, Spring Awakening, Jesus Christ Superstar), Thornloe Theatre (As You Like It) and the Sudbury Theatre Centre (The Drowsy Chaperone). In Toronto the last 8 years, has now spent almost a decade writing and producing original music for herself and on production teams for major artists including Daniel Caesar, Drake, the Weeknd, Migos, Mariah Carey and more. She has been nominated for 4 Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards and the Sudbury Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. She has had her original music licensed to film and television, most recently to “Kim’s Convenience” season 4. She has toured the USA, Canada and Europe. She is currently trying to close the gap and raise the percentage of female identifying producers on the billboard charts. She is credited with building two programs for the SOCAN Foundation - TD Incubator for Creative Entrepreneurship and Equity X. She has been the Executive Director of Northern Lights Festival Boreal and Jazz Sudbury, as well as CEO of Balaz Media where her services include grant writing, Artist entrepreneur consultations and support, and music production and recording services.