Alyssa Ryvers is a contemporary composer who creates interdisciplinary works in the classical music tradition, often incorporating oral history, theatre, film and technology; frequently, her work is highly collaborative. O douce Providence, Alyssa's collaboration with the Duplessis Orphans, began in 2013, as an artistic response to learning that the “hundreds" of shock treatments her mother alleged she underwent as a young woman in Montréal, aimed to erase the memory of her childhood, occurred within a larger context of systemic psychiatric medical abuses taking place in Quebec during that same period.

Alyssa has written for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, for multimedia, as well as for film. The first iteration of O douce Providence was premièred by The Chamber Players of Canada at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, as part of the 2016 Music & Beyond festival—a co-commission from Music & Beyond and The Chamber Players of Canada. Ms. Ryvers is grateful for the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Helen Creighton Folklore Society, CBC Radio, as well as individual and business sponsors.

As an audio engineer, Alyssa worked in film, music recording, radio and live performance. Her foundational training took place on the stage of the National Arts Centre Opera, as well as at the legendary Le Studio Morin Heights. An interest in cultural documentalism led her to work in audio conservation at Library and Archives Canada, and as an audio engineer at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Alyssa is a Resident Artist at Arraymusic for 2024-25. Her work is represented by Latitude 45 Arts.