Lizzie Ball http://www.lizzieball.com Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Kennedy with Lizzie Ball and OOL in Yorkshire ***** http://www.lizzieball.com/2012/01/21/kennedy-in-yorkshire/ http://www.lizzieball.com/2012/01/21/kennedy-in-yorkshire/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:16:46 +0000 admin http://www.lizzieball.com/?p=1546 This was just in the Yorkshire Post…

Nigel Kennedy *****

By Sheena Hastings
Published on Friday 20 January 2012 11:39

York Grand Opera House

NIGEL Kennedy, with his punkish hair, trousers decorated with safety pins and Doc Marten boots, has an approach and style that’s about moving with the movements and using a piece’s basic shape as a departure point. This show consists of his own composition The Four Elements and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to start an amazing musical journey. Accompanied by the marvellous strings of the Orchestra of Life, two sets of drums, two electric guitars, a jazz trumpeter, the percussionist from Massive Attack, and four singers with voices blended into the whole like another instrument, Kennedy moves between his Stradivarius and an electric violin, which is at times boosted into wailing effects by a Moog synthesiser controlled by foot pedals. Despite the pyrotechnics, the energy, earthiness and sheer brilliance of the music-making are what lure you in and fix your whole attention on this ensemble and the man in the middle with the sorcerer’s command of all about him. His 2012 take on the Four Seasons is intensely flavoursome and urgent, peppered with bongos and trumpet, and interrupted now and then for a side order of something else. One such detour is via a couple of Bach’s Two-Part Inventions, sublime musical conversations between Kennedy and the gifted cellist Beata Urbanek-Kalinowska. New sounds, semi-improvised riffs (full marks to orchestra leader Lizzie Ball for following Kennedy’s mercurial cues), a touch of Hendrix here, a spot of Duke Ellington there. These musicians had a ball, and so did we.

Original article here

]]> http://www.lizzieball.com/2012/01/21/kennedy-in-yorkshire/feed/ 0 Eclectica! Voted In Top 10 Albums of 2011 http://www.lizzieball.com/2012/01/03/eclectica-voted-in-top-10-albums-of-2011/ http://www.lizzieball.com/2012/01/03/eclectica-voted-in-top-10-albums-of-2011/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:12:52 +0000 Lizzie http://www.lizzieball.com/?p=1538 Happy New Year everyone! Lets hope 2012 is a truly life changing year for us all… In the meantime Lizzie is chuffed as he band Eclectica’s recent album “Flight of Fancy” was recently voted in the top 10 jazz albums of 2011 by Chris Parker and the London Jazz Review, take a look here

]]> http://www.lizzieball.com/2012/01/03/eclectica-voted-in-top-10-albums-of-2011/feed/ 0 Buddy Greco, Sony Classical and some mince pies http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/12/28/buddy-greco-sony-classical-and-some-mince-pies/ http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/12/28/buddy-greco-sony-classical-and-some-mince-pies/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:01:03 +0000 Lizzie http://www.lizzieball.com/?p=1536 After a whistle stop few months, completion of her concertmaster duties of Nigel Kennedy’s Orchestra of Life both on a 22 concerts tour of Germany plus completion of the eagerly awaited recording for Sony Classical of Vivaldis Four Seasons, recorded in Angel Studios with some top notch engineering and playing, Lizzie has had a short break and will return to the stage  of Ronnie Scotts with a bang on New Years Eve supporting the legendary Buddy Greco who sang with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald to name but a few….set begins at 8pm!! Lizzie wishes you all a Very Happy New Year, may 2012 be the one!

]]> http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/12/28/buddy-greco-sony-classical-and-some-mince-pies/feed/ 0 Lizzie to record Four Seasons with Nigel Kennedy for his exclusive new Sony contract http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/08/13/lizzie-to-record-four-seasons-with-nigel-kennedy-for-exclusive-his-new-sony-contract/ http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/08/13/lizzie-to-record-four-seasons-with-nigel-kennedy-for-exclusive-his-new-sony-contract/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:50:05 +0000 Lizzie http://www.lizzieball.com/?p=1527 Following NK’s exclusive signing of a new 3-album deal with Sony Records, Lizzie will be leading the Orchestra of Life Strings on a re-record of Vivaldis 4 Seasons, which is the third time only that Kennedy has re-recorded this classic work which originally made him the greatest selling classical artist of all time! Recording to be in December in the UK following Europe tours in the Autumn… watch this space for more news….

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Classico Latino in El Pais

Classico Latino in Nuevo Siglo magazine part 1 and part 2

]]> http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/06/20/un-mono-ingles-lizzie-ball-and-classico-latino-triumph-in-colombia/feed/ 0 Eclectica! on BBC Radio 3 http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/04/20/eclectica-on-bbc-radio-3/ http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/04/20/eclectica-on-bbc-radio-3/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:18:19 +0000 admin http://www.lizzieball.com/?p=1502 Last Sunday Pete Oxley from Eclectica! had a visit from Radio 3′s Julian Joseph at the Wheatsheaf venue that he runs. You can hear him chatting about the venue and the new release by Eclectica! the band he has with Lizzie, Bernard Gregor-Smith and Nic Meier.

You can hear the interview on the BBC iPlayer here. It’s about 50 mins in and will be available for another week.

]]> http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/04/20/eclectica-on-bbc-radio-3/feed/ 0 Eclectica! in The Strad and Jazzwise http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/04/11/eclectica-in-the-strad-and-jazzwise/ http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/04/11/eclectica-in-the-strad-and-jazzwise/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:13:46 +0000 admin http://www.lizzieball.com/?p=1441 Some lovely reviews of Eclectica’s new album Flight of Fancy in this month’s editions of The Strad and Jazzwise.

Lizzie Ball has both lyricism and exuberance in the locker, and while her vigorous Flight of the Bumblebee shouts loudest, the understated ensemble work in tandem with [Bernard] Gregor-Smith – and her beguiling singing in Jobim’s Corcovado – make more of an impression.

The Strad – April 2011

Joni Mitchell’s ‘A Case of You’ is beautifully executed…. Ball’s voice has an appealing purity and integrity.

Jazzwise April 2011

]]> http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/04/11/eclectica-in-the-strad-and-jazzwise/feed/ 1 Lizzie Ball, Britten Sinfonia and Future Projects Norwich http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/02/26/lizzie-ball-britten-sinfonia-and-future-projects-norwich/ http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/02/26/lizzie-ball-britten-sinfonia-and-future-projects-norwich/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:38:30 +0000 admin http://www.lizzieball.com/?p=1401 In between Kennedy concerts Lizzie Ball has been back with the Britten Sinfonia working with Future Projects, Norwich.

Here’s a little bit about it from the Orchestra’s Live site and you can read the Norwich Evening News article here

Orchestras Live, Norwich City Council and the Britten Sinfonia have been working on a project bringing together different musical genres and performance styles. The project aims to develop participation and engagement with professional orchestral music by involving groups of young people who would not normally be involved, and at the same time broaden the repertoire of young orchestral students with a view of each group learning from the other, facilitated by a professional orchestra and workshop leaders.

The project also involves young music technology students attending Future Projects and The Garage. In order to complete the mix, students with orchestral music experience via the County Youth Orchestra were invited to join the project.

The project is now underway, with the participants working towards a performance in April 2011 at the Theatre Royal in Norwich.

]]> http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/02/26/lizzie-ball-britten-sinfonia-and-future-projects-norwich/feed/ 0 Lizzie to lead Orchestra for Russell Watson Tour http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/02/26/lizzie-to-lead-orchestra-for-russell-watson-tour/ http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/02/26/lizzie-to-lead-orchestra-for-russell-watson-tour/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:32:22 +0000 Lizzie http://www.lizzieball.com/?p=1397 Lizzie has been asked to lead the orchestra in the highly anticipated UK comeback tour of Russell Watson-brand new dates just added to Concert page – take a look!

More Russell Watson info at www.russellwatsonuk.com

]]> http://www.lizzieball.com/2011/02/26/lizzie-to-lead-orchestra-for-russell-watson-tour/feed/ 0 Nigel Kennedy documentary on BBC News http://www.lizzieball.com/2010/11/28/nigel-kennedy-documentary-on-bbc-news/ http://www.lizzieball.com/2010/11/28/nigel-kennedy-documentary-on-bbc-news/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:03:08 +0000 admin http://www.lizzieball.com/?p=1389 Here’s a link to a recent BBC News piece on Nigel Kennedy with footage also of his Lizzie Ball his concert meister. It will run for another 7 days

Nigel Kennedy BBC News Documentary

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