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Internationally trained and award-winning musician Kara Ciezki earned her Bachelor of Music at the highly acclaimed University of Melbourne (1999), before traveling to New England Conservatory of Music (USA) where she completed her Masters in Historical and Contemporary Performance on Recorder (2003).
Winning first place at the Woodwind Concerto Competition at the New England Conservatory, Kara debuted as a concert soloist on the recorder in 2001 at Jordan Hall, Boston, and since then has performed across Australia and the US, highlighting both her vocal and woodwind abilities.
In 2006 Kara began to shift her focus more exclusively towards voice and has since gained recognition among local and international musicians and producers, leading to successful collaborations, releases and performances, including Opera Australia, Orchestra Victoria, Pipistrelli Chamber Players, Soria Chamber Players, NEC Chamber Players, DJ Cubist, Asian Envy, Minister & Youthful Implants, Bongmoth, Black Sun, After Dark Theatre, Christopher Wiseman and members of the Funk Buddies.
Kara is currently working on a number of new EP’s and album recordings, due to be
launched in the coming months, and live shows which will be joining venues and
festival circuits across Australia from October 2023.
SMASH IT UP is an album concept and show created by Kara Ciezki, that specialises in
re-creating mashups in ways you never expected! A mashup is a technique which
involves the blending of two or more pre-recorded songs, where the vocal track of
one song is overlayed seamlessly over the instrumental track of another song. There
are thousands of mashups that have been created by DJ’s and music producers, but
these new releases take the mashup to another level – a SMASH UP!
Using well known iconic songs that people know and love from artists including Gloria
Gaynor, Donna Summer, Adele, Britney Spears and The Eurythmics, and putting them
together with more recent artists such as Billie Eilish, Tones & I, Jonas Brothers, Dua
Lipa and Harry Styles, these songs have been re-created beyond the typical
‘mashup’.
Expect to hear incredible recordings with a sensational live band, horn section, and
50+ layers of vocal harmonies and arrangements.
The album will be released in full in September 2024, with all 9 singles off
the album being released over the next 12 months, in both stereo and
Dolby Atmos.
Using well known iconic songs that people know and love from
artists including Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, Adele, Britney
Spears and The Eurythmics, and putting them together with
more recent artists such as Billie Eilish, Tones & I, Jonas
Brothers, Dua Lipa and Harry Styles, these songs have been
re-created beyond the typical ‘mashup’.