Jess Chambers (also known as Dream Chambers) is a multifaceted artist and film composer based in Wellington, New Zealand and Nashville, Tennessee. She combines her skills as a vocalist, instrumentalist, and songwriter to create captivating compositions on modular synthesizers, performing her work live both solo and in ensemble configurations.

Her recent work includes the feature film Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant (Sundance 2026) and the television series The Ridge (BBC Scotland and Sky Originals, co-composed with Arli Liberman). Alongside composing for screen and stage, she maintains an active artistic practice as a performer and recording artist.

Her music is characterised by dramatic and experimental compositional structures, maximalist melodies, and the blending of electronic and organic sound worlds, moving easily between narrative scoring and performance-led work.

Jess first gained attention through her delicate folk albums and collaborations with artists such as The Woolshed Sessions, Rhian Sheehan, and The Upbeats. She has since released five solo albums and contributed to over a dozen collaborative recordings, spanning genres from country to drum and bass. Her songs have appeared widely in film and television and received recognition from APRA and the Aotearoa Music Awards for songwriting and craft.

Her performance career spans the USA, Aotearoa, and Australia, where she has headlined solo tours and shared the stage with artists including Fleet Foxes, Mark Lanegan, Trentemøller and KT Tunstall. Recent highlights include touring an original live electronic score for the 1920s horror classic Nosferatu and presenting six of her works in concert with Nashville’s contemporary classical ensemble Chatterbird.

She is currently developing new performance-driven work for modular synthesizer and vocal ensemble with support from the CNZ Fellowship Fund, and co-facilitates Techno Echo, a collective creating space for women and gender-diverse creatives to learn music technology.

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Performance enquiries: jesschambersmusic[at]gmail.com