Ola Szmidt

OLA SZMIDT  is a  singer-songwriter, musician, flautist and producer based in York. She is one of the Steve Reid Award winners and has been mentored by Four Tet.


As a multi-faceted musician her work combines vocal and instrumental improvisations with live looping techniques, and self produced electronics with sound art and song-writing. Ola’s music shifts between Scandinavian and Eastern Folk traditions, whilst including Soul, Jazz, Contemporary Classical and Ambient practices. She writes and sings in both English and her mother tongue, Polish.

Ola produced and self-published her debut Ep1 on December 1st 2017. 

The record  was compiled and mastered by Kieran Hebden. Material from the Ep was broadcasted on BBC radio 6 ( Lauren Laverne, Gilles, Peterson and Tom Robinson) and BBC Radio1 (Annie Mac, Phil Taggart). 

She recently debuted in Brownswood Basement live session: 
https://www.facebook.com/worldwidefm.net/videos/1739436599464268/